SANE in Lenny
The SANE project is working on improving SANE, extending the API and ABI in a backward-compatible manner and bumping the version from 1.0.x to 1.1.x to celebrate that.
The timetable has been posted, and calls for a release of SANE 1.1.0 on July, 30th.
This will be too late for the Lenny freeze by a few weeks, which means Lenny is set to be released with SANE 1.0.19.
SANE 1.0.19 is a good, solid release, which is good news. I’m not sure 1.1.0 will be as solid as 1.0.19 is, so I won’t try to rush 1.1.0 into Lenny at the last minute.
Until the Lenny freeze, I’m going to augment the current SANE 1.0.19 with code from the SANE CVS, concentrating mostly on bugfixes and self-contained new hardware support and features.
Hence, if there is something in the SANE CVS that you would like to see in Lenny: test it, then tell me about it. You have until the end of June to do so.
Currently on my TODO list:
- pixma backend update
Currently in experimental, sane-backends 1.0.19-7:
- saned & net backend with mDNS/DNS-SD support
- debconf support for enabling saned
Comments and feedback welcome.