[BRLTTY] Fwd: [orca] Emergency call for testing re brlapi

[J.G]

Hello,

I'm forwarding it in case brltty developers don't know about this bug.

thanks.

regards
Jožef

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs at igalia.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 19:07:16 +0200
Subject: [orca] Emergency call for testing re brlapi
To: "orca at freelists.org" <orca at freelists.org>

Hey all.

A while back Alexander reported that Orca was crashing in Arch due to a
brlapi issue. I was hoping the problem was some weird Arch thing, but it
hit Fedora 39. I'm guessing it's going to hit other distros too. :(

The brlapi crasher can be reproduced in a terminal without Orca running,
and quite easily. Orca is doing nothing special. Unfortunately, when
Orca attempts to connect to brlapi and this bug is present, Orca crashes
hard (as Alexander reported).

I have just landed a change in both the gnome-45 and master branches to
try to handle this severe bug. It will not -- and cannot -- magically
make braille work. Instead, this change has exactly one purpose: Do not
crash and keep speaking even when brlapi completely spits up. When the
brlapi problem is solved, braille support will resume working.

This change should have no impact on anyone with working brlapi.

Before I do a "gamma" release to get this change out to distros -- along
with a NEWS entry which hopefully distros will read -- I'd really like
some testing. Please, please, please and thank you!

--joanie

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