Ubuntu should support drivers installed to non-multiarch directory
Bug #1795725 reported by
Jeremy Bícha
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #1728012: Many 3rd party scanner drivers are broken by a sane change.
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| sane-backends (Debian) |
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| sane-backends (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Impact
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Some manufacturers and vendors distribute their own scanner drivers. Some of these drivers install to /usr/lib/sane/ instead of the multi-arch directory Ubuntu uses.
Expected Behavior
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sane-backends should support the non-multiarch directory too.
Also, some Brother drivers use the /usr/lib64/sane/ directory (as used in Fedora and RHEL). It would be helpful if Ubuntu supported that directory too.
Other Info
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There is much more discussion about this issue at LP: #1728012
I split this bug off since this is about a single specific issue and that bug has become more of a support thread.
The multiarch switch seemed to happen in 1.0.22-4 way back in 2011.
I don't know why there seem to be more reports now.
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| status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
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| Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote | #1 |
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| Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote | #2 |
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Hi Jeremy,
Since I was not aware of this bug, I have involved myself in bug #1728012 and try to turn it into a bug report again and a base for some action.
Would appreciate if you could take a look at the latest comments at the other bug, especially comment #232. As you can see I got stuck completely as regards scanning on bionic. I noticed that you were involved in this package at the time, and wonder if you have some theory about the reason why scanning fails for me on bionic. I can scan with my device on 16.04 and 19.04. Missing package dependency?
As regards why support for the non-multiarch directories was stopped only around 2017/2018, Debian has had a patch to keep up the support for a long time, but it was (accidentally?) disabled:
https:/