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[Moby <moby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Istvan Gabor wrote:
> > > > xsane-0.996-0.pm.1.i586.rpm  from packman.
> > > >         
> > > packman's xsane is not including tiff support for long time.
> > > Try official openSUSE version.
> > >       
> > I'm curious; do you know why?
> >     
>
> I have no any idea. I used the official SUSE xsane and after an update to 
> packman's version (it was newer) the save as tiff option was gone. Then I 
> reverted to SUSE's and it came back. Since then I haven't tried packman's 
> version. According to this thread it seems that it still does not have tiff 
> support. I don't know the reason; the packager should be asked.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Istvan
>   
The binary RPMs for xsane from Packman do not have tiff support. 
However, downloading the src rpm and then doing an rpmbuild gave me
xsane RPMs that did have tiff support - not sure why the binaries from
the site do not have tiff support.

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