Comment 43 for bug 193818

I agree that it's a long-term plan to have libgnomescan available. In its current form I'd rather not have it, though, especially if you don't intend to bump SONAMEs on ABI changes. Especially I cannot put this new library into libgnomescan0 and the package naming is generally derived from the SONAME.

So I think we should have at max two real packages (which increase the value of gnomescan as it was in Ubuntu before): flegita and maybe flegita-gimp. I'm not sure if we really need a second package for the latter, especially if we integrate libgnomescan with its translations into flegita.

The other question is if we want to migrate from gnomescan to flegita, or from gnomescan to gnome-scan depending on flegita (or flegita and flegita-gimp if we decide to keep both).

But I guess that you agree that we should find an acceptable solution soon to make it into Karmic, right? So we can reintroduce the library (not with the name libgnomescan0, though) in a later release anyway.