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<h1>Re: Silly question?</h1>
<b>Nick Lamb</b> (<a href="mailto:njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><i>njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</i></a>)<br>
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On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Michael Sweet wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; I added support for the "scsi ..." format to 1.0 (it wasn't in 1.0,</i><br>
<i>&gt; but in the patches I posted and the pre1.01 release).</i><br>
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So, answering your own question. Yes, there's a known bug in SANE 1.00<br>
where the HP backend doesn't work with "scsi HP" in the config file.<br>
It seems like ancient history to those of us who've been subscribed to<br>
this list for a while, but every new user with a HP scanner goes <br>
through the following process<br>
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(1) Download SANE 1.00 (it's the stable, tested release, right?)<br>
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(2) Try to use it<br>
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(3) Doesn't work, complain to sane-devel mailing list<br>
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(4) Get told to remove "scsi HP" from the config file<br>
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(5) Now it works, happiness results<br>
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It doesn't matter that the bug was FIXED a week after 1.00, or an hour<br>
or a second after. Users will run 1.00 because that's the stable version<br>
from the site, even if you tell them it's a bug ridden pile of rubbish<br>
(which it isn't) they'll still run 1.00 rather than 1.01pre-alpha-b0.1<br>
because it *looks* like the stable version.<br>
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Even when 1.01 goes out the door (months late IMHO) there'll still be<br>
6--12 months of the same old story, because users got 1.00 in their<br>
copy of Red Hat, Caldera or whatever, and haven't updated. It's the<br>
price you pay for the "Brown Paper Bag" mistake in v1.00<br>
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Nick.<br>
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