On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Michael George <george@mutualdata.com> 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?

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-M

There are 10 kinds of people in this world:
Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.

You can create your local overlay, and try to upgrade the ebuild to your needs.
If it works, you can send your changes as a patch to the maintainers of the package.

Kfir