Comment 65 for bug 1707352

I two Epson scanners - a V500 and a WF-3540 multifunction. The change to libsane1 seems to have completely broken the V500 and partiallty broken the WF-3540 scanner.

However, I have found a solution to at least get past the libsane dependency problem on installation. The solution I used was to extract the deb files, edit the control file dependencies from libsane to libsane1, then rebuild the debs and install them. Like so, where foo is the 3rd party deb file:
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dpkg-deb -x foo.deb tmpdir
dpkg-deb --control foo.deb tmpdir/DEBIAN
# use editor of choice to change the depend from
# libsane (>= 1.0.11-3) to libsane1 (>= 1.0.27)
nano tmpdir/DEBIAN/control
dpkg -b tmpdir modified.deb
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Then install the modified deb.

As a temporary workaround this could be automated with a short shell script for affected users.