Bug#845758: espeak-ng: please provide espeak

[Jan Braun <janbraun@gmx.net>]

Package: espeak-ng
Version: 1.49.0+dfsg-2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

while I'm excited to see an active fork of espeak, I felt let down by
the debian packaging: I'd like to switch from using espeak to espeak-ng,
but I'll have to edit my scripts to append the -ng suffix everywhere. Or
indeed write a wrapper script in /usr/local/bin/ that figures out
whether espeak or espeak-ng is installed and execs the appropriate thing
in /usr/bin/, because some of my machines are running stable (where
espeak-ng is obviously not yet available).

Having two binaries that provide the same command-line interface should
be made transparent to the user by alternatives or a dpkg-divert. Or, if
espeak upstream is truly dead, possibly by packaging espeak-ng as espeak.

Thank you for bringing espeak-ng to Debian.
    Jan



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (550, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages espeak-ng depends on:
ii  libc6          2.24-5
ii  libespeak-ng1  1.49.0+dfsg-2
ii  libpcaudio0    1.0-1
ii  libsonic0      0.2.0-4

espeak-ng recommends no packages.

espeak-ng suggests no packages.

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