Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#833950: libasound2: brltty-espeak stops working with 1.1.2-1

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

Control: tags +1 pending

* Sebastian Humenda <shumenda@gmx.de> [2016-08-10 20:30 +0200]:

> Package: libasound2
> Version: 1.1.2
> Severity: serious
> Tags: patch
> Justification: breaks system for blind users [RC, stretch]
> 
> After an upgrade to the specified version, BRLTTY starts up with speech working
> (brltty-espeak is using libao -> libasoun2), but speech stops working after
> roughly a minute. The BRLTTY process is still running, but speech cannot be
> brought back, only a restart of BRLTTY fixes this issue. All other playback of
> sound using ALSA works fine. Since it is not related to any changes in BRLTTY
> (tried several stable versions), the issue must be in libasound2. The provided
> patch fixes the issue reliably for me.

Thanks for the patch.

Jordi, could you please upload?

Elimar
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