Bug#813094: Split braille support into a separate package

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Yuri D'Elia, on Mon 01 Feb 2016 11:50:00 +0100, wrote:
> On 01/02/16 09:14, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >> On top of that, since scripts themselves can probe if louis is not available,
> >> there's no need for the dependency and fallback mechanism: just
> >> probe for liblouisutdml-bin directly, or quit otherwise.
> > 
> > We could lower the liblouis-bin dependency to a Recommends only indeed,
> > so that it gets pulled by default, but not made mandatory.
> 
> The double recommend/suggests is a bit wonky.
> Maybe you should recommend on (liblouis-bin | liblouisutdml-bin).
> 
> I don't know what's the difference in braille support between
> liblouis-bin and liblouisutdml-bin, but if the package is recommended I
> would go for the better one only.

The better one is liblouisutdml-bin, which provides better document
parsing than the basic liblouis-bin.

The issue is that ubuntu does not have liblouisutdml-bin in main, only
in universe.

Samuel