GNOME Scan

Hi everyone,

For a few days, i’ve been working on packaging properly babl, gegl and gnome-scan for the new PPA launchpad service. Finally, i got a good packaging and a usable version of Gnome Scan. So no packages for 0.5.2, i provide latest SVN version ! Here you are :

• deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bersace/ubuntu gutsy universe
• deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bersace/ubuntu gutsy universe
• Update: For debian unstable i386 : deb http://sadleder.de/debian/ ./

Thanks to PPA, packages are available for amd64 too. No powerpc (yet ?) nor GPG signed archive (obviously). Along with the availibility of my PPA, i will remove my archive at bersace03.free.fr . Philip Sadleder still provide a repos for debian based on my own debianization. Thanks Philip !

PPA is just an anti-chambre to universe. I really want to see gnome-scan 0.6 in Hardy for several reasons including :

• Hardy will be a LTS, so having a decent gnome-scan version is important.
• There is a blueprint spec “make-xsane-user-friendly“.
• Since Gnome Scan now follow Gnome Schedule, it will provide 0.6 in time before upstream version freeze.

Also, i wish other distro will update or include gnome-scan. Foresight still provide an outdate version of Gnome Scan (IIRC 0.3.1), i had no news about Fedora (just saw some 0.4 package in Extras), etc.

Anyway, go test it and report bugs ! 😀

Update: beware, flegita-gimp is known to provoke heavy memleaks if you acquire (preview works).

Cheers !