It looks like there's a couple of newer bugs in sane-backends that have been fixed in the git repository, but haven't quite percolated into the stable releases. It would be nice to have an unstable ebuild that pulled directly from the git in order to take advantage of this bug fixes. Specifically, I got caught by this bug: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2015-February/033081.html which was also an issue for Cannonical users: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xsane/+bug/1247371 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1250196 and Arch users: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=165278 Basically, it looks like XHCI doesn't interact properly with the current sane-backends. Personally, I have a Fujitsu fi-6130, which does not work with the current ebuild (scanimage works the first time, but not on subsequent calls), but correctly operates with the current git version. There is a mostly working ebuild that hooks into the git repository already on Github: https://github.com/microcai/gentoo-zh/blob/master/media-gfx/sane-backends/sane-backends-9999.ebuild I needed to change the EGIT_REPO_URI to EGIT_REPO_URI="git://git.debian.org/sane/sane-backends.git" but this it worked fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Problem with current sane-backends (1.0.24-r5) 1. scanimage -L 2. scanimage -L Actual Results: $ scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). Expected Results: $ scanimage -L device `fujitsu:fi-6130dj:106822' is a FUJITSU fi-6130dj scanner
we never add live git ebuilds to ~arch upstream provides git snapshots: http://www.sane-project.org/snapshots/sane-backends-git20150708.tar.gz and that seems to be what Ubuntu has switched to
(In reply to SpanKY from comment #1) nm ... a random user on launchpad has set up snapshots, but the main ubuntu tree has not switched to it: https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Add a git snapshot http://sources.gentoo.org/media-gfx/sane-backends/sane-backends-1.0.25_pre20150628.ebuild?rev=1.1