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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | iscan is up to date | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 | Reporter: | Igor Klechkovsky <kil> |
| Component: | Other | Assignee: | Johannes Meixner <jsmeix> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FEATURE | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | ||
| Version: | Alpha 2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | Future/Later | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Igor Klechkovsky
2008-09-12 07:29:21 UTC
Higher versions than 2.10 are not backward compatible. This means models which require a proprietary plugin of iscan 2.10 do no longer work with a higher version. Because of this regression we cannot upgrade. Please contact Avasys for any questions regarding their proprietary mess. Upgrade is not possible because Avasys does not provide all proprietary plugins for iscan versions higher than 2.10. See the "incompatible iscan-2.11.0" mail thread on http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2008-April/ for example http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2008-April/021783.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- does not work with *any* of the plugins that have a version number less than 2.1. Please use iscan-2.10.0 if you need such a plugin. The problem is not the actual incompatibility. The problem is that ... the other plugins are not available ... -------------------------------------------------------------------- For the most up-to-date status (still the same mess) see: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2008-September/022837.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Beware though that older plugin using models (still) do not work with iscan-2.11 or later. Use iscan-2.10 instead. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately removing of iscan-2.10.0 non-oss is not possible. But iscan-free may be upgraded. And iscan-2.11.0 non-oss may be added for scanners without plugins. It is correct? I cannot upgrade iscan-free without running into possible trouble because currently the YaST scanner module is not prepared when iscan and iscan-free have different versions (I use only one kind of model description file in YaST). For openSUSE after 11.1 I will think about if iscan and iscan-free could have different versions. Therefore I close it as "FEATURE" now. Please contact Avasys for any questions regarding their versioning mess. I mean this very seriously. Write mails to Avasys to make them aware when their customers do not like their versioning mess. It does not help when only a few people from Linux distributors write to them. Only those who buy (or do no longer buy) their scanners might have hopefully sufficient influence. |