Re: espeak 1.19-2

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Mario Lang wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've just uploaded a new upstream version of espeak to sid, since
> this version fixes some important issues, and adds changes that are
> very important for the accessibility community:
>
> * 1.19 fixes a BigEndianness issue which made espeak build, but not
>   run on platforms like PowerPC.
> * A libespeak API change which allows programs using libespeak to
>   retrieve speech data asynchronously.  This is going to be required
>   for espeak-using software like gnome-speech (and possible
>   speech-dispatcher).
> * Improve some non-english languages as well as add totally new ones like
>   French.
>
> I am convinced at least 1.19 should go into etch.  We should not release
> with 1.16.

153 files changed, 18014 insertions(+), 4951 deletions(-)

Too many changes to review, I'm not willing to unblock it. Do you want 
the current version in etch be removed?

Cheers

Luk