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

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Hey Samuel!

Sorry for not responding earlier, I've been swamped with other
things. :-/

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:43:39PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>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 :)

I've just moved espeakup, brltty and alsa-utils from the "forcd1" config
into tools/generate_di+k_list so they'll get pulled in for every build
including the netinst. Let's see how much of a size difference that makes.

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