Comment 32 for bug 208405

Note that the automatic printer driver download service from OpenPrinting is based on the LSB (Linux Standard Base), standard for making distribution-independent binary packages. The manufacturer creates one package per supported architecture and this package works on all distros, he creates RPMs directly and DEBs are made from the RPMs by a bot. For printers we had to add new requirements to the LSB, and for scanners the needed requirements are not (yet) included. We hope that they get in soon. See

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/ProjectPlan42

section "Additions", addition of SANE. Once having SANE supported by the LSB, we need to create appropriate server infrastructure to answer driver download requests (what the OpenPrinting web site does for printers) and Jockey needs to get appropriate code added to do the requests. In addition, an UDEV-based program is needed to do the appropriate D-Bus call to Jockey when a new scanner gets connected.

Any volunteers to help with this work are welcome.