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Bug#912629: stretch-pu: package espeakup/1:0.80-5+deb9u2



Control: tags -1 + confirmed d-i

On Fri, 2018-11-02 at 00:49 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> We would like to upload the attached change to espeakup in Stretch.
> 
> The story is that the init.d script for espeakup used to avoid
> starting espeakup if the kernel speakup_soft module is not loaded.
> When a systemd service was introduced during for Stretch, that part
> was not ported (making a service automatically disabled when a kernel
> module is not loaded does not seem to be implemented in systemd),
> which means that when installing the espeakup package on a system
> which doesn't have speakup_soft loaded, the service start fails, and
> thus the package fails to configure. We do not really want to make
> the espeakup daemon itself stop reporting an error in such case, and
> it seems that users' preference is that the espeakup service just
> loads the require module itself anyway, which is what is implemented
> in the attached changes and has been used in sid for a week then in
> testing for a week.

I'm OK with this, but because espeakup builds a udeb this officially
needs a KiBi-ack (although fwiw I'm assuming the changes don't actually
end up affecting the installer's use).

Regards,

Adam


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