Bug#826329: brltty: Please make easier braille driver setting

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual@hypra.fr>]

Package: brltty
Version: 5.3.1-3
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Today, braille display support is correct, but automate recognition is
not warrantied
at all. Either due to USB IDs, or because the driver needs additional
parameters
(e.g. Eurobraille), or because braille display needs serial ports (ttyS0
or ttyUSB0),
etc.

Then, the user needs to change brltty.conf manually. Although this file
is quite
well documented, it's not convinient at all for an end-user.

Could we imagine Debian implements something to change this file through an
user interface? The user just would do dpkg-reconfigure brlttty to
change it.

I identify at least 4 important settings to "humanize": braille-driver,
braille-device,
braille-parameter, text-table.

With capability to check several choices and, for devices, enter it manually
(useful when serial device is ttyUSB0).

Would it be possible to implement it?

Best regards,

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages brltty depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.33
ii  libasound2           1.1.0-1
ii  libbluetooth3        5.36-1+b1
ii  libbrlapi0.6         5.3.1-3
ii  libc6                2.22-9
ii  libgpm2              1.20.4-6.2
ii  libicu55             55.1-7
ii  libncursesw5         6.0+20160319-1
ii  libsystemd0          230-1
ii  libtinfo5            6.0+20160319-1
ii  lsb-base             9.20160110

Versions of packages brltty recommends:
ii  python  2.7.11-1

Versions of packages brltty suggests:
pn  brltty-speechd   <none>
ii  brltty-x11       5.3.1-3
pn  console-braille  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/brltty.conf changed [not included]
/etc/brltty/Text/fr_FR.ttb changed [not included]

-- no debconf information