Comment # 2 on bug 1140191 from Johannes Meixner

I can not at all maintain any parallel port stuff
(in particular I never used a parallel port scanner)
so I deliberately dropped parallel port scanner support.

In general parallel port support gets dropped in practice because
nowadays basically nobody could still actually maintain it
because almost nobody still has parallel port devices and
many do no longer have a parallel port at their computer,
cf. "Parallel port printers" at
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_a_Printer

See also
https://en.opensuse.org/Bug_Status_WONTFIX