Subject: bug#921: [devuan-dev] bug#921: bug#921: sane-utils: init script prompts for file removal when status is queried by nonroot user

From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2025 08:03:31 +0000

Control: tags -1 debian

Alexander and Andrew,

Many thanks for this.

On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 12:12:17AM +0000, Andrew Bower wrote:
> The root cause of this issue seems to be that saned does not remove
> its pidfile. It would be nice to get that fixed upstream.
> 
> But we can also improve the issue in the initscript like so:

Yes, that seems a good suggestion.

However, src:sane-backends is not forked in Devuan and we use Debian's packages
directly without recompilation. This issue will be evident on a Debian
non-systemd install.

Can you report with your suggested patch(es) to Debian's BTS, please?

Thanks

Mark