id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
18532	Add simple-scan and archive sane-frontends/xsane	Douglas R. Reno	Douglas R. Reno	"This would remove the GTK+-2 dependency for scanning from the book towards the goals of #18531. This would go over in the Scanning chapter.

While doing some research on this, I found that there is a GTK+-3 pull request in sane-frontends, but it's been untouched for 6 months and continues to have some problems. [https://gitlab.com/sane-project/frontends/-/merge_requests/6]

Archiving sane-frontends and xsane also removes the GIMP plugin, which could be problematic for GIMP-3 since the Plugin API is completely different, and both packages are no longer maintained (sane-frontends last had a release in 2005). 

Simple Scan has a very limited set of dependencies - sane-backends, vala, libhandy, gtk3, libgusb, and colord-sane. We'd need to add -Dsane=true to colord in order to get that colord-sane though, it does not autodetect.

Note that there is a new version of sane-backends as well - 1.2.1. We can find that at [https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/releases]. I'll create a separate ticket for that"	enhancement	closed	normal	12.1	BOOK	git	medium	fixed