Bug#678065: debian-cd: Include brltty and espeakup in netinst

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:38:41AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Package: debian-cd
>Version: 3.1.8
>Severity: wishlist
>
>Hello,
>
>Currently, the netinst images do not contain brltty and espeakup. This
>means that blind users who install Debian without a network mirror end
>up with an unusable installed system, lacking brltty and espeakup to
>show braille or talk to them. brltty was explicitly removed in version
>3.1.0 because it pulls libicu, resulting to 5MiB increase. The rationale
>was that it was not deemed the size for the little userbase. Some blind
>users have complained about espeakup, which is about the same story
>(pulling espeak etc.), so I'm recording the request here, in case that
>could be reconsidered.

I'll take a look shortly. If the size of included stuff *is* large,
then I might leave it out and suggest that people do the larger
download for CD1 instead. The netinst loses a lot of its utility if
it's too big, of course.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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