Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

[Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>]

Package: brltty
Version: 4.3-3
Followup-For: Bug #667616

Hi,

I just wanted to add, that I and my few other friends living on sid have
similar problem. Various serial devices (microcontroler programators, 3d
printers, usb-serial converters) stoped working due brltty messup. And brltty
installed automatically on some upgrade due to the some dependencies of other
packages, like text2spearch packages probably.

After detecting problem it was matter of uninstalling brltty, but still why it
need to make live harder to some people?




-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.0-t43-devel-smp-01513-g9daeaa3-dirty (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pl_PL.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages brltty depends on:
ii  libbrlapi0.5  4.3-3
ii  libc6         2.13-32
ii  libgpm2       1.20.4-4
ii  libicu48      4.8.1.1-6
ii  libncursesw5  5.9-7
ii  libtinfo5     5.9-7
ii  lsb-base      4.1+Debian4

brltty recommends no packages.

Versions of packages brltty suggests:
pn  brltty-speechd   <none>
pn  brltty-x11       4.3-3
pn  console-braille  <none>

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