http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074242 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074242#c4 --- Comment #4 from Christoph Müller <1984.christoph@googlemail.com> --- (In reply to Johannes Meixner from comment #3)

I did read but it seems you do not understand, perhaps because I did not explain it (see below).

It seems you do not understand how free software development versus fee software distribution works and therefore it seems you have wrong expectations what we (at openSUSE) can do to fix your particular issue in this particular case.

Explanation:

Because we (at openSUSE) do not develop sane-backends, we cannot bildly "just revert" a SANE upstream commit because we do not understand what other consequences at whatever other places such a change may have.

"Just reverting" a SANE upstream commit can make things work for your particular case but on the other hand there is a reason why SANE upstream did that commit (but I do not understand what the commit message means).

If you want a change of the SANE upstream code you must get in direct contact with SANE upstream and work together with the SANE upstream authors to get your particular case fixed at SANE upstream.

This is the only way how issues can get solved properly. It cannot work well when each Linux distribution maintains its own distribution-specific different set of patches. Only when issues get solved at the upstream projects things will "just work" for all Linux distributions.

In this case the SANE upstream authors need to get a better understanding of this issue to find a solution for their intent behind why they did that commit but without the bad consequences of the current implementation.

Simply put:

Continue to be helpful and continue to contribute to the SANE upstream bug report to get this issue solved properly for you and for all users of those scanner models.

Thanks for the answer and I'm sorry. I just thought you didn't read it because you linked me to the sane bugtracker. I posted a link with the bug of exactly that bugtracker. I read it like you wanted me to report the Issue upstream when i already posted the link to the reported issue. Read like a Robot/Template response. My custom build in OBS failed where i fixed the problem (reverted the change). Since i no longer have the time to deal with that i switched away from OpenSUSE to a distro where rebuilding a Package is easier. I understand. But it is also somewhat frustrating to get told to report a Bug on the opensuse Sub, then hear nothing for months and thats it. But that is my issue and has nothing to do with this. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.