Yuri D'Elia, on Mon 01 Feb 2016 11:50:00 +0100, wrote: > On 01/02/16 09:14, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> On top of that, since scripts themselves can probe if louis is not > >> available, > >> there's no need for the dependency and fallback mechanism: just > >> probe for liblouisutdml-bin directly, or quit otherwise. > > > > We could lower the liblouis-bin dependency to a Recommends only indeed, > > so that it gets pulled by default, but not made mandatory. > > The double recommend/suggests is a bit wonky. > Maybe you should recommend on (liblouis-bin | liblouisutdml-bin). > > I don't know what's the difference in braille support between > liblouis-bin and liblouisutdml-bin, but if the package is recommended I > would go for the better one only.
The better one is liblouisutdml-bin, which provides better document parsing than the basic liblouis-bin. The issue is that ubuntu does not have liblouisutdml-bin in main, only in universe. Samuel
