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Re: USB scanners and PR 50340



Nick Hudson <skrll%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:

> On 03/19/16 19:12, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> writes:
>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 07:17:50PM +0200, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
>>>> I think we should disable uscanner in GENERIC now.  I have been doing
>>>> that on my own systems for years, as uscanner has never worked for me.
>>>> The permissions issues can be fixed later.
>>> I agree.
>> OK - I have the change staged, but I'm going to do test builds of a few
>> arches before commiting, to avoid embarrassment.
> IS there any reason to keep uscanner(4)/usscanner(4) now?

That's not entirely clear.   In theory programs that use that, rather
than how SANE has changed, might still want it.   Whether there are any
such programs that any actual user wants to use is unclear.

(There's a similar conversation about ulpt, but much harder.)

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