Re: Bug#502761: I suggest removing the call to emacspeakconfig and add a mention in README.Debian
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:48:55PM -0500, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> However, I do have a problem with this one:
>
> > * Use Christian Perrier's patch for stopping the call to
> > emacspeakconfig. (Closes: #502761)
>
> The purpose of the emacspeak package is to make emacs accessible to a
> blind user. I think configuration during installation is particularly
> important for this package. Without configuration, the user is left
> with a broken package. Ordinarily that would not be a serious problem
> - he only has to read the emacspeak.info documentation and edit
> /etc/emacspeak.conf, or else read the comments in README.Debian and
> run emacspeakconfig. However, in this case we may have broken the
> tool he would use for those tasks. With 26.0-3, he may be annoyed at
> answering configuration questions while packages are being unpacked,
> but he finishes with a working program.
>
> The emacspeak-28.0-4 package:
> - has all the above mentioned bugs fixed
> - is configured using debconf
> - has an extra year's worth of upstream development.
>
> I would like to have emacspeak-28.0-4 and emacspeak-ss-1.12-2 unblocked.
> Failing that, I'll try to backport the debconf changes to the 26.0
> package.
Thanks for the explanation, James. I guess it's up to the release team
to decide the next course of action.
Kumar
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Kumar Appaiah
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