Package Details: brscan4 0.4.11_1-5

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/brscan4.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: brscan4
Description: SANE drivers from Brother for compatible models
Upstream URL: http://support.brother.com
Keywords: scanner
Licenses: GPL, custom:brother
Submitter: Harvey
Maintainer: Harvey
Last Packager: Harvey
Votes: 177
Popularity: 0.93
First Submitted: 2011-08-01 08:43 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-04-02 19:35 (UTC)

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Harvey commented on 2021-04-12 16:13 (UTC) (edited on 2021-04-12 16:28 (UTC) by Harvey)

To be honest this seems far more complicated to me than it should be and, to be even more honest, I don't understand it. brscan4 is for Multi-function devices, Scan-only devices and god knows for what else, all of them being either networked or attached via local ports. How can a scanner driver decide what group to use or not? Is saned the only daemon/piece of software using scanner devices? If would be easy to generate rules for saned group instead of scanner then... Me scratching head... BTW, mine looks not so different from https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/sane/trunk/66-saned.rules

egrupled commented on 2021-04-12 15:24 (UTC)

@Harvey sane maintainer in Arch said scanner group (or any other group) isn't used anymore with udev+hwdb setup so why did you switch over it right now?

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57391#comment197064

Harvey commented on 2021-04-12 13:41 (UTC)

2nd try, forgot to push mk-udev-rules

yywrobbie commented on 2021-04-12 13:33 (UTC)

mk-udev-rules did not pass the validity check (md5sum). Package version brscan4 0.4.10_1-2

Harvey commented on 2021-04-12 13:31 (UTC)

Published a new version only based on acl udev rules. Please try!

Harvey commented on 2021-03-08 06:42 (UTC)

@ettavolt: Will have a look as soon as I find the time. The gawk script was provided by another user, so :p For now: Don't change a running system...

ettavolt commented on 2021-02-24 10:09 (UTC)

Harvey, now that Arch has switched [1] to hwdb + acl, would you mind doing the same here next time you get your hands on this?

That means changing mk-udev-rules to build something like /usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/20-sane.hwdb supplied by the sane package now. (Sorry, I'm total noob in awk) Arch's custom 66-saned.conf will take care of other things (like some sane's rules did before).

I see no specific lines in the source [2] of Arch's sane package to do hwdb rebuild/reload. systemd likely does that automagically.

Benefits of hwdb are the ability to supply the data to something else but udev and it's indexed nature [3].

For Manjaro nothing should change (they should already have systemd with hwdb).

I think I saw someone from OpenSUSE coming here. They seem to have two separately maintained packages in the OBS, for which I didn't find any traces connecting them to AUR's brscan4.

Thank you for maintaining this package!

[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57391 [2] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/sane/trunk/ [3] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/NEWS, see "CHANGES WITH 196"

Harvey commented on 2021-02-15 20:01 (UTC)

@jowlo: updated, thanks for the hint

jowlo commented on 2021-02-15 16:56 (UTC)

There is a new version 0.4.10 available at the Brother website since 25/01/2021 at https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf105200/brscan4-0.4.10-1.amd64.deb

Would you mind updating the package? Thank you!

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