From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QBFYO-0004jg-Bz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:09:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05F7EE02F0 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:09:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A83831C043 for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:41:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so2178541gxk.40 for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:41:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=UgZcFoLzLUy/CQxbTT/F5GsIsYSNpl0+XYTStHAOmNc=; b=grVNID1qhxmVC4PCpJu01xhrq0h1/puJ0nsAWlZ/H7DDPSTmsSHBm1o8rhqVBfnOrZ 2VKQLS/oA+dyZATzbd8+C5Dy87IzTaz7BV3X+x2E5azXT+0G4ZAfl3jPCHyYTKVLSE3P wS75df7UoK+Ul8uU4dOY3pArmqeqQLmIA8Iio= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SdS25/0YlH5iigL0my2J4c4m9IYtdOnonWygN0kPQHv+Ku+EPkKq1ubYrkyEr1JFEI 84olvMhPhB3TD/ediHHoFVIN41bRoQNZgyIw/peqnlo5+k6OEyJNuwV8kWYXATAuFo6r Y8IJZXJhde2/tnUr6r4JReE6bdYHVJd6+jrGg= Received: by 10.236.175.138 with SMTP id z10mr2183683yhl.284.1302997271208; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:41:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-118-199.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.118.199]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w4sm3972562anw.42.2011.04.16.16.41.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:41:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DAA2910.4050108@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:41:04 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.18) Gecko/20110325 Gentoo/2.0.13 SeaMonkey/2.0.13 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sane-backends References: <20110416225205.GA9211@brego.pewamo.office> <4DAA25AE.4070904@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DAA25AE.4070904@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 461012cf0aa020cf6e72b0ebba2f9fa8 Dale wrote: > Michael George wrote: >> I just got a new scanner which will be supported in version 1.0.22 of >> the sane-backend package. However, that version isn't in portage yet. >> How do I find who the maintainers of the portage package are so that I >> can contact them to see if I can help get that port made available? >> > > This where the change log for one of the sane packages is located. > > /usr/portage/media-gfx/sane-backends/ChangeLog > > Usually the ones that edit there are the maintainers. I think you > need to file a bug report and request the new version to be put in the > tree and eventually made stable. > > Of course, if it is really new, it may be in a overlay for testing > too. Some put them in the overlay to test then move them over to the > tree a bit later if there are no problems or weird dependency problems. > > I think there is a fancy command to get that info but can't recall it > at the moment. I bet someone will post it tho. ;-) > > Dale > > :-) :-) > Someone already filed a bug for it. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355827 You may want to add yourself to the CC so that you can tell what is being done with it. Dale :-) :-)