Bug#686136: unblock: brltty/4.4-5
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
Please unblock package brltty
unblock brltty/4.4-5
Cyril Brulebois, le Tue 28 Aug 2012 09:54:18 +0200, a écrit :
> 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.
Now uploaded.
Samuel
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