Bug#678065: debian-cd: Include brltty and espeakup in netinst
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Samuel
Samuel Thibault, le sam. 27 mars 2021 17:24:25 +0100, a ecrit:
> Samuel wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Steve McIntyre, le mar. 26 juin 2012 17:28:35 +0100, a ecrit:
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 01:20:57PM -0300, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > >Steve McIntyre, le Tue 26 Jun 2012 15:51:20 +0100, a écrit :
> > >> Looking at this, it adds another ~20MB:
> > >> ...
> > >> CD 1: GUESS_TOTAL is 96183 after adding amd64:main:libicu48:8138068
> > >
> > >That's the main culprit and was the reason why
> > >FJP removed brltty from the netinst CD (see
> > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2008/10/msg00013.html). It seems the
> > >effect has just worsened.
> >
> > Yup, it's only going to get worse over time AFAICS.
>
> Can we reconsider this for bullseye? Nowadays the netinst image already
> includes libicu, so adding brltty and espeakup won't add much to the
> image size. We have had at least one user who was really surprised
> that he didn't get braille&speech working in the installed system only
> because he didn't have Internet available because of missing firmware.
> Telling people to download the DVD-1 image for that case is not going to
> fly :)
>
> Samuel
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