[needs-packaging] brscan

[Pavel Rojtberg]

It would be nice if the brother scanner driver brscan is available through the Ubuntu repositories. The scanner driver is available from:
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/download_scn.html

Please note that certain scanners won't populate unless you "Change Country (Language)". For example, the ADS-2100e will populate if you choose Deutschland(Deutsch) as the language, but not if you choose United States(English).

The license for the driver allows distribution and modification to package with Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/383147/+attachment/4803090/+files/License.txt

When packaging one may need to create a UDEV rule. For example, when using the ADS-2100e scanner with Xenial 64-bit, one must install Brother linux (deb) driver brscan4-0.4.4-1.amd64.deb from:
http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=at&lang=de&prod=ads2100e_eu_as_cn

Then, create file /etc/udev/rules.d/39-brother.rules :
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="037d", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

"39" because it needs to run BEFORE the /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules - there is the variable "libsane_matched" needed.

For more on this:
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Brother/Scanner?highlight=brscan#udev-Regeln-anpassen

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Marcus Habermehl (bmh1980de)]

I've uploaded the package to revu.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

What is the status of this? Seems that revu is dead and new packages have to go through MOTU or Debian: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages

On Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) I used Brother's amd64 deb package for brscan2 but it didn't work due to a library path bug:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/faq_scn.html#f00101

Easy for me to fix but not n00b friendly. Also need a dialog for brsaneconfig* when configuring network-connected scanners.

[Daniel Koć (kocio)]

Any news on this issue?

[penalvch (penalvch)]

License agreement for brscan4-0.4.4-1.amd64.deb downloaded from:
http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadend.aspx?c=at&lang=de&prod=ads2100e_eu_as_cn&os=128&dlid=dlf006645_000&flang=4&type3=566

[Christian González (droetker)]

Still present in 18.10 - Scanner is not recognized out of the box.