No package 'sane-backends' found

[Richard Hughes]

On 24 March 2010 17:25, Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn at pcode.nl> wrote:
> When trying to build gnome-color-manager from git on Ubuntu Lucid, I
> get the following:
>  checking for SANE... configure: error: Package requirements
> (sane-backends) were not met:

I've just found out that the sane pc file is only shipped by Red Hat,
and is not upstream. I guess we'll have to fall back and search for
sane.h -- if anyone wants to get started, it would be very welcome.

Richard.