From: Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev>
Subject: Re: Remove misc/brltty?
To: ports@openbsd.org, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:49:09 +0200

On 6/12/26 6:45 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Is it time to remove misc/brltty (and misc/screen-shm)?
> 
> I'm not taking this lightly.  If you need a braille display, you
> really need it.  But the brltty port hasn't been updated in over
> twenty years, despite an active upstream.  Everytime something
> broke, we fixed it, added a workaround, even kept a separate port
> with an obsolete version of screen around.  Below is another set
> of fixes to actual bugs that have kept LLVM 22 from compiling it.

I have brltty 6.9.1 building here. Turning it into a proper port
will take quite a bit of more work, though and it'll be a few weeks
until I can dedicate the time to that.

However I would very much like to not give up on the port yet.