I'm running debian-stable (stretch).
I have a canon LIDE-120, a scanner which in debian seems to require libsane-common-1.0.27, which is currently available only in sid (debian-unstable).
So my scanner is currently not usable. I wonder whether that can be fixed in the short run, without too much disruption of my debian system.
I have to confess that I've installed some packages from unstable (e.g. guile-2.2.3), but only ones without a large number of dependencies.
The approach I considered in this case was via including the unstable repository in my apt/sources and using "pinning", but I chickened out - there were a lot of dependencies and hence an install of this packaged promised to install a lot of additional packages. (And if my memory is correct, apt threatened to do things like delete various packages - or maybe "metapackages" - like gnome).
So I wonder: is there another approach? Or must I just wait for this package to get into "stretch/backports" before I can use my scanner?
Thanks, george