[manjaro-dev] Fwd: Two importanter issues with affecting both Manjaro and Manjaro Sonar edition screen reader users

[Ramon Buldo]

The issue with brltty is solved upstream and already in manjaro unstable repos.

2015-03-28 7:59 GMT+01:00 Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org>:
> Well, we can do that to please our users ...
>
> Am 27.03.2015 um 23:33 schrieb Ramon Buldo:
>> I will report the second issue to arch. Do we need to upload new
>> packages temporarily while they fix this?
>>
>> 2015-03-27 19:13 GMT+01:00 Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org>:
>>>
>>> Hmm, seems we have to check some Sonar-related packages now ...
>>>
>>> -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
>>> Betreff: Two importanter issues with affecting both Manjaro and Manjaro
>>> Sonar edition screen reader users
>>> Datum: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 11:52:32 +0100
>>> Von: Hammer Attila <hammera at pickup.hu>
>>> An: support at manjaro.org
>>>
>>> Dear Support Team,
>>>
>>> My name is Attila Hammer, and using Linux releases with Orca Screen Reader.
>>> I installed sunday with Manjaro 0.8.12 GNOME Community Edition release.
>>> My first impressions with this release is very good.
>>> I founded two importanter issues, with affecting visually imparied Orca
>>> users if using Manjaro or Manjaro Sonar releases with Orca Screen Reader:
>>> 1. The Liblouis component related package is unfortunatelly outdated
>>> both ARCH and Manjaro, and missing the enable-ucs4 configuration option
>>> in Liblouis package PKGBUILD file.
>>> If this compilation option is missing, when Orca users enabling
>>> contracted braille support in Orca preferences dialog/braille page, the
>>> user braille display only the first character presents the contracted
>>> braille output.
>>> Orca using Liblouis to generate contracted braille.
>>> Because I not founded a bug tracker for Manjaro (possible only I not
>>> known the proper possibility), I reported this issue with Arch, and
>>> attached a patch:
>>> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44319
>>>
>>> I do changes only the PKGBUILD file, and my local Manjaro system
>>> regenerated with Liblouis package. If I using my local generated package
>>> version, Orca works right the contracted braille feature, and my braille
>>> display I right see contracted braille outputs.
>>> Liblouis team publicating releases three month cicle, next release date
>>> estimated is june 1 TH, 2015.
>>> Manjaro future will follow up Liblouis version upgrade? Need help future
>>> the Liblouis packaging related? If the team not have enough time to
>>> follow up Liblouis release cicle, I welcome doing the packaging this
>>> component related.
>>>
>>> 2. Temporary I switched with Manjaro unstable repository my system,
>>> because I would like testing more accessibility related bugs after GNOME
>>> 3.16 release lands with Manjaro unstable repository.
>>> This day happened a cython package update from the 0.22-1 version to the
>>> 0.22-2 version, and after this upgrade Orca unable to use the brlapi
>>> python binding.
>>>
>>> Simple testcase in Terminal:
>>> type python command, press ENTER key, and paste the import brlapi code.
>>> Expected result:
>>> You not see a traceback error message.
>>> Actual result:
>>> You will see a traceback error message, because when happening a cython
>>> package upgrade, need regenerating the brltty package too to the Brltty
>>> python bindings is recompiled with new cython version. Brltty compiling
>>> Python bindings with cython,.
>>> This issue will affecting Manjaro and Sonar Manjaro release users if
>>> happening the cython package upgrade without brltty package upgrade the
>>> stable branches.
>>>
>>> If need reporting this issues with Manjaro bug tracker (not matter if
>>> command line need do this if not have other possibility), please tell me
>>> the bug tracker URL.
>>> The bugs.manjaro.org addres redirecting me a wiki page.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Attila
>>>
>>>
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