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[Michael Nagel <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I conclude that while it does not work with natty and earlier it will work out of the box with oneric and later :)
I am going to try that soon.

However, I assume it will thus be non-trivial to install builds of the
latest version on older Ubuntu releases :(

Regarding bake:
I am on the same page with you regarding the problems with autotools/make. But when I see something like this, I wonder if you know about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinventing_the_wheel
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_build_automation_software

I do not say bake is pointless, though -- if I were that kind of person,
I wouldn't use Simple Scan instead of xsane, would I? However I think it
needs to explicitly declare how and why it is different from the
original make and why you cannot make the original make work that way.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/898327

Title:
  Add build instructions to README

Status in Simple Scan:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  I was trying to compile the latest version of Simple Scan and failed.
  I am not that experienced, but the docu is not too great. There is a
  generic INSTALL file, but that's all.

  currently I did the following:
  bzr branch lp:simple-scan
  ./autogen.sh
  sudo apt-get install gnome-common
  sudo apt-get install ubuntu-dev-tools
  get-build-deps simple-scan
  ./autogen.sh

  At that step I fail with natty "No package 'gtk+-3.0' found".
  I also get the warning "configure: WARNING: no Vala compiler found. You will not be able to compile .vala source files."

  I think these commands should be completed with
  make
  and possibly: make install

  Is that correct? Does that work with oneric (or some other
  distribution) out of the box? Is it still possible to compile the
  latest Simple Scan on older Ubuntu releases? Could this information
  (possibly corrected/expanded) be put in the README/INSTALL file?

  Thanks!

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