brltty 6.4-2ubuntu1 source package in Ubuntu

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brltty (6.4-2ubuntu1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Resynchronize on Debian (fixes LP: #1950488)
    - Dropped delta:
      + udeb-specific changes, because Ubuntu doesn't build udebs any longer
        (LP: #1884836)
      + Ubuntu-specific entries in deprecated debian/NEWS file
      + JAVA_HOME additions to debian/rules (unneeded)
      + noudeb profiles changes to debian/{control,rules} that were upstreamed
      + changes to debian/{brltty,xbrlapi}.manpages that were upstreamed
      + debian/brltty.sh that replaced /sbin/brltty by /bin/brltty
    - Remaining changes:
      + add brltty-setup
        - debian/brltty-setup
        - debian/brltty.install
        - debian/rules
      + add initramfs integration to run brltty-setup if necessary before
        plymouth starts
        - debian/control
        - debian/initramfs/brltty.sh
        - debian/initramfs/hooks/brltty.in
        - debian/initramfs/scripts/init-premount/brltty
        - debian/initramfs/scripts/init-top/brltty
        - debian/brltty.dirs
        - debian/brltty.install
        - debian/brltty.postinst
      + add ubiquity integration to propagate any brltty configuration to the
        target system
        - debian/31brltty
        - debian/brltty.dirs
        - debian/brltty.install
      + add udev rules file that uses brltty-udev.service to activate via
        systemd
        - debian/brltty-udev.service
        - debian/brltty.dirs
        - debian/brltty.udev.rules
        - debian/rules
      + disable brltty.service by default, but enable it if the user configures
        Braille at install time for a non-USB display
        - debian/31brltty
        - debian/rules
      + don't install /etc/brltty.conf in the package
        - debian/31brltty
  * Rebase udev rules (debian/brltty.udev.rules) on upstream ones

 -- Olivier Tilloy <email address hidden>  Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:15:55 +0100

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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 libbrlapi0.8. 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 python3-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-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
libbrlapi0.8: 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.

libbrlapi0.8-dbgsym: debug symbols for libbrlapi0.8
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