#993293 xsane: No Xsane menu in GIMP

Package:
xsane
Source:
xsane
Description:
featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
Submitter:
Pekhterev Evgeniy
Date:
2025-12-24 09:09:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#993293#5
Date:
2021-08-30 10:15:16 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Due to this change, the "Xsane" menu in GIMP 2.10 has disappeared.
https://jff.email/cgit/xsane.git/commit/?h=debian/0.999-12&id=951161a767be3f1d83bad23ba42bda79881a2ab6

After reverting the commit and compiling the package, the "Xsane" menu is
returned to its place.
Perhaps this is critical for GIMP 3.0 (), but now even in SID we have GIMP
2.10.

#993293#20
Date:
2023-02-16 12:54:54 UTC
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#993293#25
Date:
2023-08-11 10:24:20 UTC
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I am replying to this bug just to note that it now affects the current stable distribution. I upgraded from bullseye to bookworm in the last few days
and the Xsane menu entry vanished. It is clearly a long-running issue; it would be nice if a fix for bookworm could be implemented.

In my case it is particularly annoying as xscanimage in bookworm crashes with a segfault. I am off to look for the apropriate package to report this.

Hugh Pumphrey
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#993293#30
Date:
2025-08-18 16:09:11 UTC
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I am just adding to this bug to note that when I upgraded to trixie (and
hence Gimp 3.0) there is still no menu item for xsane in gimp.

Hugh Pumphrey

#993293#35
Date:
2025-12-24 09:07:12 UTC
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I have documented workarounds at

https://daniel-lange.com/archives/195-Getting-scanning-to-work-with-Gimp-on-Trixie.html

You have the choice between a Python script by Lee Yingtong Li
(RunasSudo) or compiling the latest upstream which has the Gimp 3.x
compatibility patches.

I hope a new upstream xsane will be made available some time later via
trixie-backports.