diff --git a/packages/sane/lib/src/exceptions.dart b/packages/sane/lib/src/exceptions.dart
index d777e64..e6a2730 100644
--- a/packages/sane/lib/src/exceptions.dart
+++ b/packages/sane/lib/src/exceptions.dart
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import 'package:ffi/ffi.dart';
-import 'package:meta/meta.dart';
 import 'package:sane/src/bindings.g.dart';
 import 'package:sane/src/dylib.dart';
 
@@ -189,14 +188,3 @@ final class SaneUnsupportedException extends SaneException {
   @override
   SANE_Status get _status => SANE_Status.STATUS_UNSUPPORTED;
 }
-
-@internal
-extension SaneStatusExtension on SANE_Status {
-  /// Throws [SaneException] if the status is not [SANE_Status.STATUS_GOOD].
-  @pragma('vm:prefer-inline')
-  void check() {
-    if (this != SANE_Status.STATUS_GOOD) {
-      throw SaneException(this);
-    }
-  }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/sane/lib/src/extensions.dart b/packages/sane/lib/src/extensions.dart
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..85bae1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/sane/lib/src/extensions.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import 'package:sane/src/bindings.g.dart';
+import 'package:sane/src/exceptions.dart';
+
+extension SaneStatusExtension on SANE_Status {
+  /// Throws [SaneException] if the status is not [SANE_Status.STATUS_GOOD].
+  @pragma('vm:prefer-inline')
+  void check() {
+    if (this != SANE_Status.STATUS_GOOD) {
+      throw SaneException(this);
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/sane/lib/src/sane.dart b/packages/sane/lib/src/sane.dart
index 7fa756a..0b219f9 100644
--- a/packages/sane/lib/src/sane.dart
+++ b/packages/sane/lib/src/sane.dart
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import 'package:ffi/ffi.dart' as ffi;
 import 'package:sane/src/bindings.g.dart';
 import 'package:sane/src/dylib.dart';
 import 'package:sane/src/exceptions.dart';
+import 'package:sane/src/extensions.dart';
 import 'package:sane/src/structures.dart';
 import 'package:sane/src/type_conversion.dart';
 import 'package:sane/src/utils.dart';
diff --git a/packages/sane/pubspec.lock b/packages/sane/pubspec.lock
index bce266d..789c73f 100644
--- a/packages/sane/pubspec.lock
+++ b/packages/sane/pubspec.lock
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ packages:
     source: hosted
     version: "0.12.16+1"
   meta:
-    dependency: "direct main"
+    dependency: transitive
     description:
       name: meta
       sha256: e3641ec5d63ebf0d9b41bd43201a66e3fc79a65db5f61fc181f04cd27aab950c
diff --git a/packages/sane/pubspec.yaml b/packages/sane/pubspec.yaml
index 886e81c..418b99f 100644
--- a/packages/sane/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/packages/sane/pubspec.yaml
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ environment:
 
 dependencies:
   ffi: ^2.1.3
-  meta: ^1.16.0
 
 dev_dependencies:
   ffigen: ^14.0.1