Johannes Meixner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Jun 13 16:53 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (shortened):
>
>>Julien BLACHE <
jb@...> writes:
>>
>>>Ah thanks, that'll make my life easier :) The amount of work required
>>>to get the backend in shape for inclusion is one of the reasons why
>>>I'm not updating it more often
>
>
> Some time ago I got a nice patch from Dirk O. Siebnich
> from which I made our patch to build our iscan-free package
> which is a really free version of the epkowa backend
> (this means the /usr/bin/iscan frontend was also removed
> because it requires a non-free library).
>
> Julien,
> I would appreciate it if the free version of Iscan would
> be as much as possible the same on Debian and on Suse
> (and on any other distribution).
> If you (or any other distribution package maintainer) are
> interested, please contact me.
I have seen it on our OpenSuSE mirror here at Mandrive. What I have done
now is suggesting to the upstream developers to make two packages, one
with the frontend and one with the backend, to be more distro-friendly.
I have no answer yet, lets see what they say.
Till
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