From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CD611138334 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 12:11:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9838E0D9B; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 12:11:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw1.antarean.org (gw1.antarean.org [194.145.200.214]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E74DE0D7C for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 12:11:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw1.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F7426285 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 13:02:16 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from gw1.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gw1.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27LYoTspxnjZ for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 13:02:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailstore1.antarean.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw1.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFCC261F6 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 13:02:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.adm.antarean.org [10.55.16.44]) by mailstore1.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228EA25 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 13:11:15 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Scanners, sane and driver support question Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 13:11:15 +0100 Message-ID: <4084015.NOYqUjfTTx@eve> Organization: Antarean In-Reply-To: <4e275bf5-6093-26d9-77c1-eb8a44a4befe@gmail.com> References: <4e275bf5-6093-26d9-77c1-eb8a44a4befe@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: 96ce9e24-2e20-486e-91bd-4de6aed1913b X-Archives-Hash: 7e1d34247faf44c5d3fa2fad5934be93 On Sunday, November 11, 2018 1:35:29 AM CET Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm on the hunt for a scanner, flatbed type, and have been browsing Ebay > and the sane project list of supported devices. I'm leaning toward HP > on this. While looking at say a ScanJet 6200C, it says the drivers are > no longer maintained but complete. It leads me to this question. Does > that mean they are complete and fixes will no longer be made even if > something breaks them and they need a little tweaking OR they are > complete and if a bug pops up, they will be fixed as needed but all > functions work? I can see the logic either way on this. I'm leaning > toward the side that if something pops up that requires a little > tweaking, it will be done by someone. The drivers are just feature > complete. > > Does anyone else have the same thinking or is buying one of these > scanners a bad idea if the drivers were to break and the scanner was > rendered no longer usable? In short: "No longer maintained" = "If something breaks, you can try to fix it yourself" "Complete" =(usually)= "All functionality works at time of testing" In general, if the drivers are Open Source, someone somewhere might still be maintaining this if anything does break. If there is a binary blob required to make it work, it depends on how this part actually works. If it can be treated like an appliance (eg. with input X will always do Y and output Z), then you can ignore the fact it is a black box. -- Joost