Comment 5 for bug 1707352

I don't know all makers of scanners that aren't supported by a stock sane. Also if I wrote a mail to <email address hidden> or <email address hidden> telling them that their driver doesn't work with the newest experimental package from debian, but that I don't know any details what has changed I don't expect them to panick and to do something.

The "provides" looks like being a first step, though, if the two libraries are in fact compatible to each other: This would at least allow to install scanner drivers from 3rd party manufacturers.