(solved) Caution -- sane-related removals (again)

[DeepDayze]

On my machine several packages got removed, but noting them and letting them go then reinstalling them worked fine.

[piper]

@DeepDayze

Yeppers

[dibl]

Here, my ancient Epson Perfection 1640SU scanner and only slightly newer HP LasterJet P1606dn printer continue to work perfectly with the new packages.

[DeepDayze]

Hopefully going forward we won't have some Debian dev make such decisions again about library versioning.

[tommy2]

@DeepDayze, sometimes we have to make do with what we are given good or bad we need to make the most out of it. 

[drb]

Not all scanners are supported by sane. My Epson 4490 requires fiddling with an iscan plugin to work. A list of those supported / not supported at http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html
PS Bitten bullet and after installing 4490 plugin, scanner working OK. Also Firewire Nikon slide scanner and HP printer all OK.

[GoinEasy9]

Just an FYI - It's been close to 2 weeks since my last update. What worked for me was just to "apt remove libsane1", which upgraded and installed everything that it need too automatically, while only removing libsane1. 
Apt-get dist-upgrade was normal after that.   
Worked on both my KDE and LXQt installs.

[melmarker]

yeah, i guess we can set it solved now.

[blaze]

^^Thanks, worth the wait.

[tranquil]

In addition to other packages mentioned in this thread that will be removed, my list also includes hplip and hplip-gui.  Has anyone else let these packages go and then been able to successfully reinstall without issue?

[GoinEasy9]

The hplip and hplip-gui applications were on my list to be removed, but, as I said in my previous post, removing libsane1 solved the problem.

[tranquil]

Different on my end.  If I attempt to apt purge libsane1 or libsane-common (as Piper suggested), hplip and hplip-gui are to be removed.

[Camelot]

Different on my end.  If I attempt to apt purge libsane1 or libsane-common (as Piper suggested), hplip and hplip-gui are to be removed.

For a long time I installed libsane (this removed libsane1), then I could install libsane-common and hplip (I don't need hplip-gui, hp-setup -i is enough for me).

sane-backends (1.0.27-3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
  * Rename libsane1 back to libsane, make the renamed package provide libsane1

https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/sane-backends/sane-backends_1.0.27-3.1_changelog

[dibl]

If I attempt to apt purge libsane1 or libsane-common (as Piper suggested), hplip and hplip-gui are to be removed.

Correct.  But, after libsane is installed, then hplip and hplip-gui can be reinstalled.

[melmarker]

apt install libsane libsane1-