Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 06:34:05 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 244156] Handbook: Stale 7.7 Image Scanners chapter Message-ID: <bug-244156-9@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D244156 Bug ID: 244156 Summary: Handbook: Stale 7.7 Image Scanners chapter Product: Documentation Version: Latest Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: --- Component: Documentation Assignee: doc@FreeBSD.org Reporter: tobik@freebsd.org On the off chance that somebody has time and a USB scanner that is supported by SANE, please update the Scanner chapter [1] in the handbook. It has gotten a little stale. sane-frontends is deprecated, recommending the unmaintained xsane might not be the best idea. graphics/kooka might be an alternative to xsane. Advice in "7.7.3 Scanner Permissions" is bad too, because it uses devfs.rules and assumes that USB device nodes never change. Permissions change should happen via devd instead based on scanner vendor/product id. Somebody has already written a rough outline about this 10 years ago in sane-backends's pkg-message [2] but it could use some polishing and IMHO it would be much better to have it in the Handbook. Ideally I'd like to completely remove or trim the pkg-message from sane-backends a lot because I do not think a page long tutorial belongs there. [1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/scanners.html [2] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/master/graphics/sane-backends= /files/pkg-message.in --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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