Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add sane-backends

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 07:44:28PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
>      John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
>      
>      > +    ;; It would seem that tests are not maintained - fails with
>      > +    ;; the following:
>      > +    ;;
>      > +    ;; < This page was last updated on Wed Jul 31 07:52:48 2013
>      > +    ;; <  by sane-desc 3.5 from sane-backends 1.0.24git
>      > +    ;; ---
>      > +    ;; > This page was last updated on Sun Oct 19 15:41:39 2014
>      > +    ;; >  by sane-desc 3.5 from sane-backends 1.0.24
>      > +    ;; **** File generated for html-backends-split mode is different 
> from reference
>      > +    ;; Makefile:501: recipe for target 'check.local' failed
>      
>      Perhaps it would be worth trying to s/24git/24/ and see if it works.
>      WDYT?
>      
> Well presumably the date would have to be substituted too.

Oh, right; I had overlooked that.

> I wonder how much it is wise to second guess what the developers wanted.  
> Presumably 
> upstream haven't run "make check" since Jul 31 2013, so it seems that they 
> don't
> consider it important.

Yes, that makes sense.

OK to commit, then.

Thanks,
Ludo’.