New comment by pudiva on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/29627#issuecomment-806875028 Comment: > Maybe report it upstream, but the makefile version is missing the unversioned symlink: > > > /usr/lib/sane/libsane-airscan.so -> /usr/lib/sane/libsane-airscan.so.1 I submitted a PR, but upstream didn't like the unversioned symlink, and also shared that they don't really maintain the **meson** build, but just try to not break it ~ sounds like they prefer **make**. Their full response: > Nobody links against these drivers directly, they are always loaded via sane-dll, which doesn't use unversioned symlink. So I believe that SANE itself creates these links only for legacy reasons and there is no need to reproduce this behaviour in the independent package. > > Official packages for Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu come without this symlink and it causes no problems and no complains. > > Regarding meson build, it was contributed by my users and I don't maintain it, I only keep it here for everybody's convenience and trying not to break when something changes in the project. > > So really thank for your contribution, but in this particular case I don't think we really need it. https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan/pull/132#issuecomment-806477624