Epson perfection 1260 scanner support broken in current utopic sane-backends

[Sergio Callegari]

With the current (on utopic) sane-backends, the Epson perfection 1260 scanner cannot be used.

Invoking xsane causes sane to recognize that the scanner is attached. However when the scanner is selected, sane hangs forever
and cannot even get the scanner configurable parameters to display.

The scanner works fine with the newer sane-backends 1.0.25+git150121 (available in a PPA).

Please, forward port the fix.

[Sergio Callegari (callegar)]

With utopic, you need to use the plustek backend.

[Sergio Callegari (callegar)]

But the version of that backend in utopic seems problematic.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Sergio Callegari, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases your release is EOL.

If this is reproducible with a supported release of Ubuntu, it will help immensely if you filed a new report with it by running the following from a terminal:
ubuntu-bug sane-backends

Also, please feel free to subscribe me to it.

For more on why this is helpful, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.