Comment 237 for bug 1728012

I made a new attempt with bionic, and yes!!

@renbag: You were absolutely correct, and it's brscan2 that requires the presence of libusb-0.1-4. I think this explains it:

$ ldd /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7 | grep libusb
 libusb-0.1.so.4 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libusb-0.1.so.4 (0x00007f79f3e57000)

libusb-0.1.so.4 was used when libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7 was compiled, in other words, and Brother should ideally have stated the libusb-0.1-4 package (which installs that .so file) as a depend in the brscan2 .deb package.

So now I have been able to confirm that the proposed package for bionic in the PPA makes a difference. Would still appreciate more feedback before starting to look for a sponsor who can upload.