[Bug 193818] Re: Please update to latest 0.6

[Michael Nagel]

if i understand correctly, gnome-scan intends the following design:

the functional backend:
- libgnomescan

providing functionality for various frontends:
- flegita, a standalone program for scanning documents
- flegita-gimp, a gimp-plugin for tight integration with the gimp
- other frontend programs yet to come, including those from 3rd party developers

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principally this might be a good packaging structure on the long run.
but right now, libgnomescan is not ready for it's intended use as a
basis for scanning applications because the api/abi is not considered
stable. it is thus not reasonable to package it as a library. i suggest
to include it with flegita.

the options for flegita-gimp are to either include it with flegita or to
make it a separate package. i prefer the first approach because it means
just one package. for one thing i recently learned that it is beneficial
to spare unnecessary packages and moreover the whole "gnomescan thing"
is just one product right now.

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i suggest a single package. i'd call it gnomescan, because it is a
catchy name and established with the community. gnome-scan is
acceptable, too. however it causes some overhead with transitional
packages and has not been used "in the wild" yet. i could live with
flegita, but it is not catchy or descriptive. furthermore it is the name
of one part of the project only.

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@Philipp: from a packaging point of view, is it ok to have one
"gnomescan" package bundling all the "gnomescan stuff"? is it an
advisable approach to do it as described above and split the package
when libgnomescan becomes stable and useful on it own? would you do the
packaging?

@Étienne: is this one-package-approach ok for you? can we call it
gnomescan? are we supposed to call it gnome-scan? or should it be named
flegita?

please comment timely, so work can start soon :)

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