Bug#173984: ITP: kernel-image-speakup-i386 -- Precompiled speakup Linux Kernel
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : kernel-image-speakup-i386
Version : 2.4.20
Upstream Author : Kirk Reiser and Andy Berdan
* URL : http://www.linux-speakup.org/speakup.html
* License : GPL
Description : Precompiled speakup Linux Kernel
I plan to provide a speakup-enabled kernel in Debian. All the
required work is already done. Since this is my first kernel related
work, I CC'ed this to debian-devel in case anyone does have suggestions
or objections to this.
speakup is a kernel patch which extends linux such that you can use
the keyboard and a external or internal hardware speech synthesizer to read
the console screen contents. The only thing which needs to be
set is the synthesizer to be used, which is done via a kernel boot
option. As soon as the kernel starts to initialize, your speech
synth should immediately start talking, giving you full control over
very low-level aspects of system-administration.
If no one objects, I plan to upload this next year.
Following is the debian/control file I plan to use:
Source: kernel-image-speakup-i386
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org>
Standards-Version: 3.5.8
Build-Depends: debhelper, modutils, kernel-source-2.4.20, kernel-package (>= 7.41), tar (>= 1.13.18), kernel-patch-speakup
Package: kernel-headers-2.4.20-speakup
Architecture: any
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Depends: fileutils (>= 4.0)
Provides: kernel-headers
Description: Header files related to Linux kernel version 2.4.20-speakup
This package provides kernel header files for version
2.4.20-speakup, for sites that want the latest kernel headers.
Please read this file for details:
/usr/share/doc/kernel-headers-2.4.20-speakup/debian.README.gz
Package: kernel-doc-2.4.20-speakup
Architecture: all
Section: doc
Priority: optional
Depends: coreutils | fileutils (>= 4.0)
Provides: kernel-doc-2.4
Description: Linux kernel specific documentation for version 2.4.20-speakup.
This package provides The various readme's in the 2.4.20-speakup kernel
Documentation/ subdirectory: these typically contain kernel-specific
installation notes for some drivers for example. See
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.20-speakup/Documentation/00-INDEX for a list
of what is contained in each file. Please read the Changes file, as it
contains information about the problems, which may result by
upgrading your kernel.
.
Speakup specific documentation can be found in
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.20-speakup/Documentation/speakup/
Package: kernel-image-2.4.20-speakup
Architecture: i386
Section: base
Priority: optional
Provides: kernel-image, kernel-image-2.4
Depends: initrd-tools (>= 0.1.34), coreutils | fileutils (>= 4.0), modutils (>= 2.4.19)
Suggests: lilo (>= 19.1), fdutils, kernel-doc-2.4.20-speakup
Description: Linux kernel binary image for version 2.4.20-speakup.
This package contains the Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20-speakup,
the corresponding System.map file, and the modules built by the
packager. It also contains scripts that try to ensure that the
system is not left in a unbootable state after an update.
.
If you wish to update a bootdisk, or to use a bootloader to make
installing and using the image easier, we suggest you install the latest
fdutils (for formatting a floppy to be used as boot disk), and LILO, for a
powerful bootloader. Of course, both these are optional.
.
Kernel image packages are generally produced using kernel-package,
and it is suggested that you install that package if you wish to
create a custom kernel from the sources.
.
This kernel package contains a Linux kernel patched with speakup,
a screen reader for the Linux console. Speakup currently supports the
following hardware speech synthesizers:
* DoubleTalk PC/LT
* LiteTalk
* Accent PC/SA
* Speakout
* Artic Transport
* Audapter
* Braille 'N Speak / Type 'N Speak
* Dectalk External and Express
* the Apollo2
.
NOTE: We don't claim this drivers to be stable, use them on your own
risk.
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