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Re: brltty changes for wheezy



Hi Samuel,

Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> (28/08/2012):
> We would like to apply some upstream fixes to the brltty package.
> 
> - r6587 fixes accent output in some messages (Bug#680648). It is a
> matter of passing them through mbrtowc.
> 
> - r6588 simply unfuzzies translations which are actually up-to-date (the
> translator didn't know about the fuzzy keyword) (Bug#680638).
> 
> - r6592 and r6625 fix typing shift/control/alt from braille devices in
> X11 (Bug#681460). The patch looks long, but passing it through interdiff
> -w (30-late-fixes-r6592-w.patch) better shows what it changes: "if"
> into "switch" and a new next_modifiers variable which adds itself to
> the existing modifier management. r6625, applied after that, fixes the
> behavior.
> 
> - r6623 is quite invasive, but without it, the at-spi2 driver simply
> does not work at all.  That means that brltty can not be used to access
> gnome-terminal windows along orca, which makes them way less usable with
> a braille device.
> 
> - eventually, because of r6623, new build-deps are needed and the
> configure script has to be regenerated, see "patch".  That further
> triggers a rebuild of the pot file, which I had to disable trivially
> with 40-no-update-pot.patch.
> 
> Are these all OK to upload?

while I haven't checked individual patches yet, I like what that says on
the box (especially at-spi2), so please upload to unstable.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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