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brltty (5.0-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Samuel Thibault ]
  * control:
    - Make python*-brlapi description more explict.
    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5 (no changes).
  * debian/initramfs/hooks/brltty: rename to .in, and make DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH
    computed at build time by debian/rules (Closes: #725986).

  [ Jason White ]
  * Add support for systemd (based on upstream service file).
    Closes: #726783.

  [ Paul Gevers ]
  * Adjust build and source files to be able to build against
    speech-dispatcher 0.8
  * Fix timestamp in man pages and strip LinuxDoc-Tools version from html
    (Closes: #708585)

  [ Mario Lang ]
  * New upstream release.
  * debian/source/options: compress with xz.
  * debian/patches/20-sbin.patch: Update.
  * debian/patches/30-format-security.patch: New.
  * debian/brltty.examples: Update to account for renaming of a directory.
  * (temporarily) disable bluetooth in udeb to prevent linking against
    non-udeb packages.
 -- Luke Yelavich <email address hidden>   Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:12:04 +1100

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brltty: Access software for a blind person using a braille display

 BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode)
 for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
 display and provides complete screen review functionality.
 The following display models are supported:
  * Alva/Optelec (ABT3xx, Delphi, Satellite, Braille System 40, BC 640/680)
  * Baum
  * BrailComm
  * BrailleLite
  * BrailleNote
  * Cebra
  * EcoBraille
  * EuroBraille (AzerBraille, Clio, Esys, Iris, NoteBraille, Scriba)
  * Freedom Scientific (Focus and PacMate)
  * Handy Tech
  * HIMS (Braille Sense, SyncBraille)
  * HumanWare (Brailliant)
  * Iris
  * LogText 32
  * MDV
  * Metec (BD-40)
  * NinePoint
  * Papenmeier
  * Pegasus
  * Seika
  * Tieman (Voyager, CombiBraille, MiniBraille, MultiBraille,
            BraillePen/EasyLink)
  * Tivomatic (Albatross)
  * TSI (Navigator, PowerBraille)
  * VideoBraille
  * VisioBraille
 .
 BRLTTY also provides a client/server based infrastructure for applications
 wishing to utilize a Braille display. The daemon process listens for incoming
 TCP/IP connections on a certain port. A shared object library for clients is
 provided in the package libbrlapi0.6. A static library, header files and
 documentation is provided in package libbrlapi-dev. Bindings to other
 programming languages can be found in libbrlapi-java (Java) and
 python3-brlapi (Python).

brltty-dbg: debugging symbols for brltty

 BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode)
 for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
 display and provides complete screen review functionality.
 .
 This package contains the debugging symbols for BRLTTY.

brltty-espeak: Access software for a blind person - espeak driver

 BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the Linux console (text mode)
 for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
 display and provides complete screen review functionality.
 .
 This package contains an optional speech driver for the espeak
 speech synthesis engine.

brltty-flite: Access software for a blind person - Flite speech driver

 BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the Linux console (text mode)
 for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
 display and provides complete screen review functionality.
 .
 This package contains an optional speech driver for the Festival Lite
 speech synthesis engine.

brltty-speechd: Access software for a blind person - Speech Dispatcher driver

 BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the Linux console (text mode)
 for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
 display and provides complete screen review functionality.
 .
 This package contains an optional speech driver for the speech-dispatcher
 speech synthesis server.

brltty-udeb: Access software for a blind person using a braille display

 This is a small version of brltty, optimized for use on install media.

brltty-x11: Access software for a blind person using a braille display - X11 drivers

 BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the Linux console (text mode)
 for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
 display and provides complete screen review functionality.
 .
 This package contains optional screen drivers for BRLTTY which require X11 or
 GNOME.

libbrlapi-dbg: braille display access via BRLTTY - shared library debugging symbols

 BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode)
 for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
 display and provides complete screen review functionality.
 .
 BrlAPI is a library which gives an application access to a braille display and
 lets it write braille.
 .
 This package contains the debugging symbols for the brlapi shared library.

libbrlapi-dev: Library for communication with BRLTTY - static libs and headers

 BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode)
 for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
 display and provides complete screen review functionality.
 .
 BrlAPI is a library which gives an application access to a braille display and
 lets it write braille.
 .
 This package contains the static library libbrlapi.a and header files
 in /usr/include/brltty/ necessary to compile programs for BrlAPI, a
 client-server based mechanism to remotely access a braille display.

libbrlapi-java: Java bindings for BrlAPI

 BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode)
 for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
 display and provides complete screen review functionality.
 .
 BrlAPI is a library which gives an application access to a braille display and
 lets it write braille.
 .
 This package provides java classes to access a braille display via BrlAPI.

libbrlapi-jni: Java bindings for BrlAPI (native library)

 BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode)
 for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
 display and provides complete screen review functionality.
 .
 BrlAPI is a library which gives an application access to a braille display and
 lets it write braille.
 .
 This package provides the architecture-dependant files required to
 access a braille terminal via BrlAPI from Java.

libbrlapi0.6: braille display access via BRLTTY - shared library

 BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode)
 for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
 display and provides complete screen review functionality.
 .
 BrlAPI is a library which gives an application access to a braille display and
 lets it write braille.
 .
 This package contains the shared library necessary to run programs which
 need to communicate with a braille display.

python-brlapi: Braille display access via BRLTTY - Python bindings

 BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode)
 for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
 display and provides complete screen review functionality.
 .
 BrlAPI is a library which gives an application access to a braille display and
 lets it write braille.
 .
 This package provides Python 2.x bindings for BrlAPI.

python3-brlapi: Braille display access via BRLTTY - Python3 bindings

 BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode)
 for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
 display and provides complete screen review functionality.
 .
 BrlAPI is a library which gives an application access to a braille display and
 lets it write braille.
 .
 This package provides Python 3 bindings.

xbrlapi: Access software for a blind person using a braille display - xbrlapi

 BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the Linux console (text mode)
 for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
 display and provides complete screen review functionality.
 .
 This package provides xbrlapi, a brltty X11 helper which handles proper
 keyboard simulation and window selection.