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 1QBNxJ-0004DM-K7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:07:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC72B1C0A5 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:07:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208291C011 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:08:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyb26 with SMTP id 26so4479433iyb.40 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:08:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=4B37acLCT1XtAEHZC7kII2z1tMp+w3OKpnLwiYTWECw=; b=gsDtS18ynYblpiTCerW8CJLQmHCsVPOnSClUma+38mXPD0bxHLzZYI/BDcCQZ/BWZU PwbX0f4KoA+FcwlnrIPAA3Xyzz6phKcheS7NJKWEhgNmI5tum56334PxVNPp7pmIRoZj yewM4rWaGIyOl4DyXVx72jh2TXMYDR0YWfYLE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=MLb6R8bKqpcyRK1KDFDWL3omFXrQklqs/erbrHdAwRq+J8bZwlTFnZKYhcDEqWPU4h ZLhe6RcU5GleqxHgwZV4TmjC6a3BCqH6F4bSLVpgN8nxqUFDLzHsezC6iiYAWgqo5drA 0iXjnhQw+TNW9Hc5GNFMxzm04WxsQRO4wxPlY= Received: by 10.43.46.69 with SMTP id un5mr4790008icb.394.1303027727696; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:08:47 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.42.221.201 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:08:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110416225205.GA9211@brego.pewamo.office> References: <20110416225205.GA9211@brego.pewamo.office> From: Kfir Lavi Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:08:27 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sane-backends To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec5299bf5d7824804a118c8e8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d06ca6d57d43fcd52b5228928ec87a31 --bcaec5299bf5d7824804a118c8e8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:52 AM, 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? > > -- > -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 --bcaec5299bf5d7824804a118c8e8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


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. =C2=A0However, 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?

--
-M

There are 10 kinds of people in this world:
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Those who can count in binary and those who can= not.



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

Kfir
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