Author: Mark Hindley Date: To: Andrew Bower, 921 CC: Alexander Rehbein Subject: [devuan-dev] bug#921: bug#921: bug#921: sane-utils: init script
prompts for file removal when status is queried by nonroot user
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?