Bug#570057: gnome-orca: liblouis-dev needs to be a build-dep for gnome-orca

[arky]

Package: gnome-orca
Version: 2.29.90-0ubuntu2
Severity: normal

liblouis provides contracted braille support for the orca screen reader. In order for Orca to discover where the liblouis translation tables are, Orca's autogen.sh/configure scripts look to pkg-config on the liblouis package:

pkg-config --variable=tablesdir liblouis

The pkg-config info is provided by the liblouis-dev package. Without this, Orca cannot find the translation tables for liblouis. The impact is that Orca thinks contracted braille is available, but doesn't offer the user any contracted braille table options.

As a potential future solution, we may request that the liblouis project provide bindings to allow the discovery of the translation table location at runtime. For now, however, it's important to have liblouis-dev installed when building Orca.

Thanks!

Launchpad Bug : https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-orca/+bug/522162

-- System Information
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers lucid
  APT policy: (500, 'lucid')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-6-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-orca depends on:
ii  libgail-gn 1.20.1-2                      GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  python     2.6.4-0ubuntu2                An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-brl 4.1-2ubuntu5                  Python bindings for BrlAPI
ii  python-gno 2.28.0-1ubuntu1               Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk 2.17.0-0ubuntu2               Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-lou 1.7.0-2                       Python bindings for liblouis
ii  python-pya 1.29.90-0ubuntu2              Assistive Technology Service Provi
ii  python-spe 0.6.8~unofficial~rc1-0ubuntu1 Python interface to Speech Dispatc
ii  python-sup 1.0.4ubuntu1                  automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages gnome-orca recommends:
ii  gnome-mag              1:0.15.9-1ubuntu1 a screen magnifier for the GNOME d
ii  wget                   1.12-1.1ubuntu2   retrieves files from the web

gnome-orca suggests no packages.

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