Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection [ OFF TOPIC: gnome/gnome-orca dependencies pull brltty unacassarly ]

Sat Jun 9 07:37:52 UTC 2012

Witold Baryluk, le Sat 09 Jun 2012 02:13:07 +0200, a écrit :
> gnome-desktop-environment is obsolate meta-package, but it Depends just
> on gnome package, which Depends on gnome-orca, which Recommends (IMHO
> should be just Suggests) brltty-x11,

No.  It should instead recommend xbrlapi, which was precisely meant to
avoid that dependency chain.  I've requested it as a follow-up to bug
#653663, but it has apparently been lost in the mboxes.

Samuel