sane-backends library name issues

[Jeremy Bícha]

There is a dispute in Debian about the package name for the sane library.

See especially https://bugs.debian.org/913346

Also https://bugs.debian.org/913125 & https://bugs.debian.org/908681

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

we should probably ask debian to provide a transitional package too

[Iain Lane (laney)]

I don't like that we seem to be blocking sane-backends indefinitely because of this bug.

What is the way forward please?

[Iain Lane (laney)]

As far as I can see the Debian bugs are all closed - looks like the maintainer isn't pushing on this further. Can we close this bug and let 1.0.27-3.1 migrate?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

No, see LP: #1804550

I believe we need to add a transitional package for the update to work smoothly.

I haven't worked on this yet because I wanted to take the time to test the situation with and without a proposed transitional package and honestly, it didn't look to me like a very high priority yet.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

It's been blocked in disco-proposed for 32 days.

This package is in testing. Why hasn't the sky fallen in in Debian?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Debian only had libsane1 in Unstable so Debian's situation is not as serious as Ubuntu's.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package sane-backends - 1.0.27-3.1ubuntu1

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sane-backends (1.0.27-3.1ubuntu1) disco; urgency=medium

  * Add libsane1 transitional package (LP: #1802586) (Closes: #913346)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Jan 2019 11:55:10 -0500