Ubuntu
sane-backends package

  1. Bug #1707352
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1707352

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PeterPall (peterpall) wrote : Re: [Bug 1707352] Re: the change from libsane to libsane1 broke many (all?) 3rd party plug-ins for sane

On 29.07.2017 11:32, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> I really don't understand why Ubuntu use packages from the Debian
> experimental branch.
>
> The experimental version is very buggy and the requested transition from libsane to libsane1 isn't
> ready to start.
>

Debian unstable sometimes lacks behind the real development by years.
Testing often is much more stable, which means that ubuntu on a regular
basis pulls packages from debian-testing. Unfortunately this way broken
packages tend to enter ubuntu, as well...