[Bug 569917] New: yast2-scanner: only iscan-free as RPM, proprietary Iscan only from Avasys
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917#c0 Summary: yast2-scanner: only iscan-free as RPM, proprietary Iscan only from Avasys Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Factory Platform: All OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: ASSIGNED Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: jsmeix@novell.com ReportedBy: jsmeix@novell.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Development Blocker: --- Our proprietary Iscan packages iscan-proprietary-drivers, iscan-firmware, and iscan will be no longer provided by openSUSE. Only the free software package iscan-free will still be provided by openSUSE. All Iscan software is made and provided by Avasys http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/ where RPMs for 32-bit and 64-bit architecture (and Debian 32 and 64-bit packages) can be downloaded. Therefore yast2-scanner must be adapted to no longer try to install our iscan-proprietary-drivers, iscan-firmware, and iscan packages (see bug #556097) but instead it must show a meaningful user information when a scanner is to be set up which requires the proprietary Iscan software so that the user can download and install the right packages from Avasys on his own. Question: Why does not YaST download and install the packages from Avasys? Short answer: Because it is proprietary software. Explanatory answer: Before downloading any proprietary stuff I would have to show the right proprietary license dialog so that I would need at least reliable fixed URLs for the right proprietary license texts which must be well separated from the actual proprietary stuff (i.e. only one proprietary package with included license texts would not work for us), see http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2008-April/021911.html Possible solution: Iscan should do it the same way as HPLIP: Avasys should provide a free software source tar ball which provides all their free Iscan software but not any piece of their prorietary Iscan software. For their prorietary stuff there should be a free "iscan-setup" tool which does all what is necessary regarding proprietary stuff (in particular show the right license text, download the right packages from the right URLs, and install them in the right way on the end-user's system). Then I could also call such a tool from YaST if a model is to be set up which requires proprietary stuff. I already requested this several times but it seems Avasys' software policy is somehow fundamental different... For any further questions, please contact Avasys directly! -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917#c1 --- Comment #1 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2010-01-15 09:58:45 UTC --- FYI: See also bug #425743 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917#c2 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #2 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2010-01-21 16:50:17 UTC --- Fixed in YaST SVN revision 60474. - V 2.19.1 - Adapted to no longer try to install the proprietary packages iscan, iscan-proprietary-drivers, and iscan-firmware. Instead show a meaningful user information when one of those Epson models is to be set up which require the proprietary Iscan software so that the user can download and install the right packages from Avasys on his own This is the user information text: --------------------------------------------------------------------- The third-party Image Scan driver software from Avasys is required. The Image Scan driver software is made and provided by Avasys http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/ where RPM packages for 32-bit (i386) and 64-bit (x86_64) architecture can be downloaded (if you accept the Avasys and Epson license agreements). The Image Scan driver contains proprietary binary-only software. For some models it is only available for 32-bit (i386) architecture which does not work when you have a 64-bit system installation. Some scanners are also supported by another (free-software) driver. When your scanner model requires a DFSG non-free (proprietary) module, you have to download and install two packages from Avasys: The 'iscan' package for the base software and an additional model dependant 'iscan-plugin' package with the proprietary module. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917#c3 --- Comment #3 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2010-01-22 11:58:46 UTC --- Submitted as yast2-scanner version upgrade to 2.19.1 to YaST:Head (request 30279) and openSUSE:Factory (request 30280). -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917#c4 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mmeeks@novell.com --- Comment #4 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2010-03-23 07:42:51 UTC --- *** Bug 590142 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590142 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917#c5 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|yast2-scanner: only |yast2-scanner and |iscan-free as RPM, |iscan-free: only iscan-free |proprietary Iscan only from |as RPM, proprietary Iscan |Avasys |only from Avasys --- Comment #5 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2010-06-17 13:35:14 UTC --- The iscan-free package needs also to be adapted: Submitted iscan-free to openSUSE:Factory via submitrequest 41667 with the following RPM changelog entry: --------------------------------------------------------------- - Updated the lists of unsupported models in the RPM package description and let it no longer mention the packages iscan-proprietary-drivers, iscan-firmware, and iscan because those packages are no longer provided by openSUSE --------------------------------------------------------------- -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917#c6 Russ Fineman <upscope@nwi.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |upscope@nwi.net --- Comment #6 from Russ Fineman <upscope@nwi.net> 2010-08-31 18:18:53 UTC --- Just some information. The newest Iscan proprietary software does not support many older mfp printers. Example my old Epson CX6600 is no longer shown as supported. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569917#c7 --- Comment #7 from Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com> --- This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (569917) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/41667 Factory / iscan-free -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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