[arch-general] out of date accessibility package, liblouis

Guillaume ALAUX guillaume at archlinux.org
Mon Jul 6 21:09:12 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 9:59 PM, kendell clark <coffeekingms at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Guillaume ALAUX wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 1:42 AM, kendell clark
> > <coffeekingms at gmail.com> wrote: hi all I'm writing in to let
> > everyone know that according to packages.archlinux.org, liblouis
> > has been flagged out of date since september of last year. The url
> > and download location has changed, details below The url has
> > changed from: http://code.google.com/p/liblouis to
> > http://liblouis.org. I'm not at all sure where  liblouis is being
> > downloaded from, but the new location is
> > http://liblouis.org/downloads/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz. I'd fix
> > this myself but I don't have access to the arch repositories, so
> > I'm writing in so others can. I hope this isn't the wrong list to
> > email this to? Thanks for reading Kendell clark
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am not the regular liblouis maintainer for Arch Linux but I can
> > still push it to [extra]. I would even have done it already if only
> > I had been able to test it – through Orca I guess – but whatever I
> > try even with the "old" version, I just cannot get any screen info
> > read.
> >
> > Could you please install the following package and confirm
> > everything is OK? I guess, Orca working properly would make it.
> >
> > http://pkgbuild.com/~guillaume/misc/liblouis-2.6.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
> >
> >
> http://pkgbuild.com/~guillaume/misc/liblouis-2.6.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.sig
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -- Guillaume
> Hi
> This works flawlessly. No issues in orca at all. Were you trying to
> use liblouis by itself? This is supposed to be possible but I'm not at
> all sure how. Liblouis is supposed to be used, I think, in screen
> reader packages for braille support, along with brltty. Long story
> short, no issues at all.
> Thanks a lot for your help
> Kendell clark
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I have tried it through Orca under Gnome without luck. Anyway, your
validation makes it for me. This is pushed to [extra] :).

Thanks,

--
Guillaume


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