Getting scanning to work with Gimp on Trixie

Trixie ships Gimp 3.0.4 and the 3.x series has gotten incompatible to XSane , the common frontend for scanners on Linux. Hence the maintainer, Jörg Frings-Fürst, has disabled the Gimp integration temporarily in response to a Debian bug #1088080 . There seems to be no tracking bug for getting the functionality back but people have been commenting on Debian bug #993293 as that is ... loosely related…