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@khampf: Thank you for the improvements! I'll give you ownership of this package.

@ainola I made a small patch for getting rid of the strncpy bounds warning that hinders compilation - I can probably add it to the package and maintain for a while if you no longer use it. I noticed the Arch Wiki page is outdated too but one thing at a time - just recently got this working on my computer

got scanbd internal error in cfg-init_defaults loading the Config file scanbd.conf fails with newest confuse-3.2-1 downgraded to 3.0-1 and it works again

As I'm no longer using this package it is difficult for me to accurately test new releases. If anyone would like to take over maintaining, please let me know!

Thanks for your comment, Zepman. PKGBUILDs should never be interactive, so scanbuttond support won't be enabled, sorry. The proper method of dealing with your particular itch would be to create a separate package (for instance, scanbd-scanbuttond-backend) with the options enabled. Further, yet another package could be created for your Epson perfection (scanbuttond-epson-perfection, maybe? Those are long names...). Support should absolutely be pushed upstream in the meantime, I'm sure the author would appreciate your work. Let me know if this didn't address your questions, and if you do create packages be sure to have them conflict with scanbd and ping me again so I can update my PKGBUILD to conflict with yours.

I used this package to build and install scanbd with scanbuttond support. An old scanner I use (Epson Perfection V10) requires the scanbuttond support and an additional patch to make the buttons usable. While creating this package, I noticed several issues: 1. There is no option to enable scanbuttond support, aside from manually editing PKGBUILD and adding the relevant option to the ./configure line. SANE or scanbuttond support is mutually exclusive. Would it be possible to include a switch which asks which kind of backends should be supported? The default option should be SANE. 2. scanbuttond support requires libusb0 (available in AUR), yet it is not a dependency. 3. Not really an issue, but I do have a patch which includes support for the Epson Perfection V10. All it does is change 1 line and add 2 lines to the epson_vphoto.c scanbuttond backend to include the scanner's Plug & Play ID. Adding this patch would be nice, but I guess it would be better if it was applied upstream. Anyway, thanks for this package.

@cdannebe, you seem to have just discovered that Sourceforge is currently in Disaster Recovery mode - it appears that other PKGBUILDs are screwed up because of this. So we must just wait and see what happens.

Please URL to the source package must the changed to http://downloads.sourceforge.net/scanbd/releases/scanbd-1.4.3.tgz and in the PKGBUILD as well. Furthermore the sha256sum seems to be wrong! Kind regards, Christian

Thanks for the heads up, yrns. It turns out the PKGBUILD did mean to set it to /etc/scanbd/sane.d but the pattern to match was not hitting (it appears to be due to a change in upstream's path). It's fixed now.

@yrns: In /usr/lib/systemd/system/scanbd.service, the SANE prefix is correct as per wiki. I would think it does have a precedence over /etc/scanbd/scanbd.conf. (I cannot test now.) In either case, it would of course be better to have it correctly in both locations to avoid confusion.