brltty: Request for sponsorship of this package upload.

Debdiff between current debian and merged package

Debdiff between old Ubuntu, and merged package.

Luke, it would be easiest if you generated a correct debdiff between the current Debian version and the newer merged ones; changelog entries seem to be missing.

Fixed debdiff between Debian and Ubuntu merged package

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Format: 1.7
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:57:14 +1000
Source: brltty
Binary: libbrlapi1 brltty-flite brltty-udeb libbrlapi1-dev brltty brltty-x11
Architecture: source
Version: 3.7.2-3.1ubuntu1
Distribution: edgy
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Mario Lang <email address hidden>
Changed-By: Luke Yelavich <email address hidden>
Description:
 brltty - Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal
 brltty-flite - Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal
 brltty-udeb - Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal
 brltty-x11 - Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal
 libbrlapi1 - braille display access via BRLTTY - shared library
 libbrlapi1-dev - Library for communication with BRLTTY - static libs and header
s
Closes: 376863
Changes:
 brltty (3.7.2-3.1ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * Merge from Debian unstable.
   * Move /lib/libbrlapi.so symbolic link from libbrlapi1-dev to
     libbrlapi1 to make sure that gnome-orca can work with braille
     support.
   * Commented out the include for linux/compiler.h in
     Programs/usb_linux.c.
 .
 brltty (3.7.2-3.1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * changing build-depends from libbluetooth1-dev to libbluetooth2-dev |
     libbluetooth-dev as suggested by Felipe Augusto van de Wiel and Rudy
     Godoy. (Closes: #376863)
     Thanks!
Files:
 4bea2f9cda55840fc91a5b8280ac6d56 771 admin extra brltty_3.7.2-3.1ubuntu1.dsc
 e92bdee36b9482a8f3dce288462490ce 44030 admin extra brltty_3.7.2-3.1ubuntu1.diff
.gz
Package-Type: udeb

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Hi,

Daniel T Chen, le Thu 17 Aug 2006 03:56:49 -0000, a écrit :
> * Merge from Debian unstable.
> * Move /lib/libbrlapi.so symbolic link from libbrlapi1-dev to
> libbrlapi1 to make sure that gnome-orca can work with braille
> support.

Mmm. This is a not-so-short story. From debian packaging policy point
of view, the .so symbolic link should really reside in -dev. And from
an ABI point of view, orca should dlopen("libbrlapi.so.4"); instead of
dlopen("libbrlapi.so");

But these are really "should", and this fix should be fine for now.

When brltty will provide its own python bindings for BrlAPI, the orca
issue should be fixed and libbrlapi.so will be able to come back to
-dev.

Samuel

Samuel, in my haste I uploaded an incorrect version (that Adam kindly pointed out). The fixed version was uploaded shortly afterward [0].

[0] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2006-August/003939.html