#1034252 colord: please consider splitting out colord-sane

Package:
colord
Source:
colord
Description:
system service to manage device colour profiles -- system daemon
Submitter:
Stephen Kitt
Date:
2023-04-11 16:39:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1034252#5
Date:
2023-04-11 16:33:56 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

colord-sane scans for SANE devices every time colord scans for
devices, e.g. on my system whenever a USB device is connected (or
wakes up). This wakes my multi-function printer up, which is noisy and
wasteful (it's a laser printer, so it heats up every time this
happens). See https://github.com/hughsie/colord/issues/118 and the
links there for more on this.

Would it be possible to split colord-sane out to a separate package?
The attached patch implements this. This has the side-benefit that the
main colord package no longer depends on libsane1.

Regards,

Stephen