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brltty 5.5-4ubuntu1 source package in Ubuntu

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brltty (5.5-4ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #1741070).  Remaining changes:
    - Add brltty-setup, installed in both the udeb and the normal system.
    - Add initramfs integration to run brltty-setup if necessary before
      plymouth starts.
    - Add ubiquity integration to propagate any brltty configuration to the
      target system.
    - Add udev rules file that uses brltty-udev.service to activate via systemd
    - Disable brltty.service by default, but enable it if the user configures
      Braille at install time for a non-USB display
    - Don't install /etc/brltty.conf in the package
    - Enable brltty at startup on the target system if the alternate installer
      is used.
    - Add gbp.conf file for git buildpackage
  * debian/brltty.sh: Update path /sbin/brltty to /bin/brltty

brltty (5.5-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * initramfs/hooks/brltty.in, initramfs/scripts/init-premount/brltty: Update
    /sbin/brltty paths.
  * control: Replace dh-systemd build-depends with debhelper (>= 9.20160709)
  * rules: Set DEB_HOST_ARCH only if not defined already.

  [ Mario Lang ]
  * git-ba42441d03c6145fe6859c90fb01b1fa16221a2f: New patch to prevent scancodes
    from generating spurious log messages.

brltty (5.5-3) experimental; urgency=medium

  * rules: Let brltty get installed into /bin, so it can be run e.g. in X for
    accessing terminals.
  * brltty.links: Add compatibility symlink in /sbin/brltty.
  * brltty-udeb.dirs, brltty-udeb.sh, brltty.dirs, brltty.init,
    brltty.install, brltty.service, xbrlapi.install, 20-sbin.patch: Update
    accordingly.

brltty (5.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Upload to unstable (Closes: #871155)
  * patches/git-07ecca2240c680373e9c2e5e38241edde9d1a677: Apply upstream patch
    to fix finnish table (Closes: Bug#864670).
  * control: Update maintainer mailing list.
  * libbrlapi-dev.install: Also install device-specific brldefs headers
    (Closes: Bug#869972).
  * patches/brldefs-install: Fix installing device-specific brldefs headers.
  * control: Migrate priority to optional.
  * control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.1

brltty (5.5-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * git-reproducible.patch: Make the build reproducible, thanks Chris West for
    the patch (Closes: Bug#859959).
  * New upstream release (Closes: #871155)
    - patches/defauth-keyfile.patch, defauth-polkit, git-braillenote.patch,
      git-lsystemd.patch, git-manufacturer.patch, git-reproducible.patch,
      git-speech-crash.patch, git-vario-ultra-restart.patch, wait-polkit,
      xbrlapi-nospam.patch, xbrlapi-setfocus.patch, xbrlapi.patch: Remove
      patches, merged upstream.
    - patches/20-sbin.patch: update patch.
    - org.a11y.brltty.metainfo.xml, 60xbrlapi, xbrlapi.desktop: Remove files,
      merged upstream.
  * patches/api_startup.patch: Fix race between socket setup and select().
  * brltty-udeb.udev.rules: Update.

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden>  Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:32:11 +0100

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Original maintainer:
Ubuntu Developers
Architectures:
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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 cl-brlapi (Lisp), libbrlapi-java (Java)
 and python-brlapi (Python).

brltty-dbgsym: debug 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-espeak-dbgsym: debug symbols for brltty-espeak
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-flite-dbgsym: debug symbols for brltty-flite
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-speechd-dbgsym: debug symbols for brltty-speechd
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.

brltty-x11-dbgsym: debug symbols for brltty-x11
cl-brlapi: Common Lisp 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 Common Lisp bindings vor BrlAPI.

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.

libbrlapi-jni-dbgsym: debug symbols for libbrlapi-jni
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.

libbrlapi0.6-dbgsym: debug symbols for libbrlapi0.6
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.

python-brlapi-dbgsym: debug symbols for python-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.

python3-brlapi-dbgsym: debug symbols for python3-brlapi
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.

xbrlapi-dbgsym: debug symbols for xbrlapi