On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:38:41AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Package: debian-cd >Version: 3.1.8 >Severity: wishlist > >Hello, > >Currently, the netinst images do not contain brltty and espeakup. This >means that blind users who install Debian without a network mirror end >up with an unusable installed system, lacking brltty and espeakup to >show braille or talk to them. brltty was explicitly removed in version >3.1.0 because it pulls libicu, resulting to 5MiB increase. The rationale >was that it was not deemed the size for the little userbase. Some blind >users have complained about espeakup, which is about the same story >(pulling espeak etc.), so I'm recording the request here, in case that >could be reconsidered.
I'll take a look shortly. If the size of included stuff *is* large, then I might leave it out and suggest that people do the larger download for CD1 instead. The netinst loses a lot of its utility if it's too big, of course. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
