Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (156 mails)

[Peter Czanik <pczanik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2010-06-30 12:04 keltezéssel, Guido Berhoerster írta:
> * Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@xxxxxxx> [2010-06-30 11:42]:
>   
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Jun 30 11:22 Guido Berhoerster wrote (shortened):
> >     
> > > * Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@xxxxxxx> [2010-06-30 11:03]:
> > >       
> > > > There should be no package iscan or iscan-proprietary-drivers
> > > > or iscan-firmware in any of our "official" openSUSE projects.
> > > > I filed deleterequests for all those IScan related proprietary
> > > > packages, see
> > > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556097#c9
> > > >         
> > ...
> >     
> > > Please retain at least iscan-firmware, many Epson scanners will
> > > not work without it. Without this package the firmware has to be
> > > extracted manually from the Windows driver which is quita a
> > > hassle.
> > >       
> > It is much easier to visit the Avasys web site and download
> > their proprietary packages from them to make Epson scanners
> > which need proprietary stuff work well under Linux.
> >     
> No, models like the Epson Perfection 3490/3590 work fine with the
> opensource sane snapscan driver, they don't need the epkowa
> driver or the iscan application, just the firmware.
>   
I have a 4990 on my desk, and with the installed
iscan-free-2.10.0.1-88.1.i586 on openSUSE 11.2 it works perfectly. So I
hope, this package is not removed.
Bye,
CzP
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