Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection [ OFF TOPIC: gnome/gnome-orca dependencies pull brltty unacassarly ]
On 05-23 15:04, Jason White wrote:
> Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Because some device manufacturers don't obtain unique vendor/product ids for
> their products and thus BRLTTY can't distinguish between genuine braille
> devices and certain other hardware.
>
> The solution is simple: if you don't have a braille display then make sure
> that BRLTTY is not installed. Those who do have a braille display really need
> it for accessing their systems.
>
> Dependency resolution shouldn't result in installation of BRLTTY for users who
> don't request it, though. Would it be possible to find and fix those
> dependencies?
>
Hello again,
Just trying to install gnome-desktop-environment package, brings by
dependencies a brltty (probably via gnome-accessibility).
gnome-desktop-environment is obsolate meta-package, but it Depends just
on gnome package, which Depends on gnome-orca, which Recommends (IMHO
should be just Suggests) brltty-x11, and it brings whole brltty
machinery.
So it looks that it is subtle bug in orca dependencies. Adding one of
orca maintainers to CC, to see what they think about it about
possibility of chaning Recommends: brltty-x11 to Suggests: brltty-x11 ?
Regards,
Witek
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Witold Baryluk
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