Currently the ebuild reads: ****** DEPEND="media-gfx/sane-backends (....) ****** when it should read ****** DEPEND="media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.4 (....) ****** At patch to the ebuild is attached. The configure step of emerging xsane-0.96 fails otherwise. This requirement is indicated in both the configure srcipt and the docfile "xsane.INSTALL".
Created attachment 56813 [details, diff] xsane-0.96-r1.ebuild_fixeddep.patch xsane-0.96-r1.ebuild patch to fix sane-backends dep spec
As far as I can see from the ChangeLog, there has never been a sane-backends version < 1.0.5 in portage. Could you perhaps explain how you noticed this "problem" and why you think it should be fixed? Just wondering...
*shrug* I hadn't upgraded xsane in a very long time. When I finally did so last week, I ran into this problem, with the symptoms reported above and fixed with the patch supplied. It's possible that I had to rebuild sane-backends anyway, and the error was due to a binary incompatibility and the fix was irrelevant. Anyway, if Portage will have only >=sane-backends-1.0.4 into the future, it's a non-issue. I am closing.
