[gentoo-user] Scanners, sane and driver support question

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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no longer maintained but complete.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? 

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)