Comment 24 for bug 844582

Hans, we can certainly disagree. But it seems you as well as some of the upstream devs do not understand much about packaging. If you want timely fixes, pay someone to do it. If you want to make a mess of your system, install random packages. I'm fine with any of that. I'm not fine if then such person comes back and waste Ubuntu devs time with a problem they did not create or gives Ubuntu a bad name that they did not deserve in this case. I hope that makes sense.

BTW, scanner support is the responsibility of the manufacturer, don't you think? Have you complained to them about lack of FOSS support? Have you taken this into consideration when you purchased your scanner? Or have you simply purchased whatever was cheapest? IMO, what is not acceptable is buying cheap, unsupported stuff and then complaining to people doing a LOT of work for you for free. Last comment, if you feel that all of this is so unacceptable then have you rolled up your sleeve and provided a patch or at least tried to?