[sane-devel] Building xsane

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Ralph,

Ralph Little writes:

> Hi,
> I have been trying to build xsane with little success.
> I notice that there has not been much activity in the repo for some time.

# Background: The original XSane website went off-line when the GDPR
#             came into effect.  I contacted its author (Oliver Rauch)
#             and we agreed to put XSane under the umbrella of SANE and
#             create the frontend/xsane project on GitLab.com.

When I reconstructed the XSane git repository from the collection of
source tarballs I got, I did compile tests on Debian *Wheezy*.  Those
compiled fine all the way back to xsane-0.84 (released sometime in
2002!).

Wheezy was the most recent Debian release that I was able to build XSane
on without extra work.  I guess someone could take a look at the patches
used to build on Debian Buster (released earlier this month) and see
what can be used to make XSane compile on a more recent distribution.

> Is xsane currently built?

Not in terms of GitLab CI.

Hope this helps,
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