Dear Maintainer,


   * What led up to the situation?

I upgraded from bullseye to bookworm and tried to use a gimp scanner plugin

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

I looked for the create --> Xsane option which was missing and I reported it
in the appropriate package (Bug #993293). I then tried
create --> xscanimage and nothing appeared to happen. I then tried
xscanimage from the command line.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

xscanimage starts up, but fails with a segmentation fault as soon as either
the "scan" or the "acquire preview" button is used.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

To be able to use the scanner from within Gimp. The scanner (Epson
Perfection 1640SU)  is working: I can access it with the Xsane command-line
program, save the resulting.pnm file, and open that in gimp. But it is clunky.

Thanks in advance, and thanks for being a Debian maintainer,

Hugh Pumphrey

I am just adding to this bug to note that when I updated to trixie there
was no change: there are still no menu entries in gimp for scanner access,
and  xscanimage still segfaults when you try to acquire a scan or a preview.

Hugh Pumphrey

Hello Hugh,

Sane is not part of trixie. -  You are probably running an old version of
xscanimage that was removed from trixie before it was released.

xscanimage in forky/sid 1.0.14-18.1 should not segfault.

sane/gimp 3.0 support has not been released yet, there is work in
progress in upstream GIT, that's it.

cu Andreas

That'll be it --- sorry to be clueless and thanks for clueing me up.

Hugh