diff --git a/sane-backends.changes b/sane-backends.changes
index d6fdc40..79915dd 100644
--- a/sane-backends.changes
+++ b/sane-backends.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jun 16 11:42:37 UTC 2017 - nmoudra@suse.com
+
+- Deleted xinetd service in favor of socked based activation
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May 24 10:02:33 CEST 2017 - jsmeix@suse.de
 
diff --git a/sane-backends.spec b/sane-backends.spec
index 889ec9e..bf0ffe1 100644
--- a/sane-backends.spec
+++ b/sane-backends.spec
@@ -31,11 +31,12 @@ BuildRequires:  libusb-1_0-devel
 BuildRequires:  libv4l-devel
 BuildRequires:  net-snmp-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config
+%systemd_requires
 Summary:        SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) Scanner Drivers
-License:        GPL-2.0+ and SUSE-GPL-2.0+-with-sane-exception and SUSE-Public-Domain
-Group:          Hardware/Scanner
 # There is no 1.0.26 release of sane-backends. That number was skipped so that the SANE upstream
 # development version numbers would more clearly be an extension of the prior release:
+License:        GPL-2.0+ and SUSE-GPL-2.0+-with-sane-exception and SUSE-Public-Domain
+Group:          Hardware/Scanner
 Version:        1.0.27
 Release:        0
 Url:            http://www.sane-project.org/
@@ -50,8 +51,6 @@ Url:            http://www.sane-project.org/
 # md5sum -c sane-backends-1.0.27.tar.gz.md5
 Source0:        https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/file/4224/sane-backends-%{version}.tar.gz
 # Source100... is SUSE specific stuff:
-# Source101 is the xinetd file for the saned:
-Source101:      sane-port
 # Source102 is the OpenSLP registration file for the saned:
 Source102:      sane.reg
 # Source110 creates our hpaio.desc file directly from the models.dat file of HPLIP:
@@ -72,6 +71,9 @@ Source200:      create_scanner_database
 # to extract the needed info from which create_sane-backends-autoconfig.rules
 # generates the 56-sane-backends-autoconfig.rules file:
 Source201:      create_sane-backends-autoconfig.rules
+# Sources 202 and 203 are files to enable socked based service activation which replaced xinetd
+Source202:      saned@.service
+Source203:      saned.socket
 # Patch2 sane-backends.builttime.patch avoids build-compare noise
 Patch2:         sane-backends.builttime.patch
 # Patch100... is SUSE specific stuff:
@@ -418,9 +420,9 @@ sed -i -e '/^# Epson Perfection 636S /i# Epson Perfection 1640\nKERNEL=="sg[0-9]
 sed -i -e '/^# Epson Perfection 2450 /i# Any SCSI processor EPSON SCANNER...\nKERNEL=="sg[0-9]*", ATTRS{type}=="3", ATTRS{vendor}=="EPSON", ATTRS{model}=="SCANNER*", MODE="0664", GROUP="lp", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"' tools/udev/libsane.rules
 # Install the udev rules file:
 install -m644 tools/udev/libsane.rules %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/udev/rules.d/55-libsane.rules
-# xinetd stuff:
-install -d -m755 %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/xinetd.d/
-install -m644 %{SOURCE101} %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/xinetd.d/
+# Service files
+install -d -m644 %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/saned@.service
+install -d -m644 %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/saned.socket
 # OpenSLP registration stuff:
 install -d -m755 %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/slp.reg.d
 install -m644 %{SOURCE102} %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/slp.reg.d
@@ -430,13 +432,19 @@ rm %{buildroot}%{_defaultdocdir}/sane-backends/{README.aix,README.beos,README.da
 # https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Conventions_RPM_Macros#.25find_lang
 %find_lang sane-backends
 
+%pre
+%service_add_pre saned.socket
+
 %post
 /sbin/ldconfig
-exit 0
+%service_add_post saned.socket
+
+%preun
+%service_del_preun saned.socket
 
 %postun
 /sbin/ldconfig
-exit 0
+%service_del_postun saned.socket
 
 %files -f sane-backends.lang
 %defattr(-,root,root)
@@ -444,7 +452,6 @@ exit 0
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/sane.d/*.conf
 %dir %{_sysconfdir}/slp.reg.d
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/slp.reg.d/*
-%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/xinetd.d/sane-port
 %dir %{_sysconfdir}/udev
 %dir %{_sysconfdir}/udev/rules.d
 %{_sysconfdir}/udev/rules.d/55-libsane.rules
@@ -456,6 +463,8 @@ exit 0
 %{_datadir}/sane/
 %{_libdir}/libsane.so.*
 %{_libdir}/sane/
+%{_unitdir}/saned@.service
+%{_unitdir}/saned.socket
 #dir /var/lock/sane
 %doc %{_defaultdocdir}/sane-backends/
 %doc %{_mandir}/man1/scanimage.1.gz
diff --git a/sane-port b/sane-port
deleted file mode 100644
index 0585076..0000000
--- a/sane-port
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-# default: off
-# description: The saned provides scanner service via the network.  \
-#	Applications like kooka, xsane or xscanimage can use the remote \
-#	scanner. 
-service sane-port
-{
-	socket_type = stream
-	port        = 6566
-	wait        = no
-	user        = root
-	group       = root
-	server      = /usr/sbin/saned
-	disable     = yes
-}
diff --git a/saned.socket b/saned.socket
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3a07fa1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/saned.socket
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=saned incoming socket
+
+[Socket]
+ListenStream=6566
+Accept=yes
+MaxConnections=1
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=sockets.target
diff --git a/saned@.service b/saned@.service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c587880
--- /dev/null
+++ b/saned@.service
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Scanner Service
+Requires=saned.socket
+
+[Service]
+ExecStart=/usr/sbin/saned
+User=saned
+Group=saned
+StandardInput=null
+StandardOutput=syslog
+StandardError=syslog
+Environment=SANE_CONFIG_DIR=@CONFIGDIR@
+# If you need to debug your configuration uncomment the next line and
+# change it as appropriate to set the desired debug options
+# Environment=SANE_DEBUG_DLL=255 SANE_DEBUG_NET=255
+
+[Install]
+Also=saned.socket