Re: festival recommends change: request/advice

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

Dear Julien,

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:52:25AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 21:07:44 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the response. The problem with making Alsa default is this:
> > the method I am aware of to get Alsa used is by feeding the festival
> > output to aplay. Now, I can easily install a festival.scm (Attached
> > for your reference) and ship it with the package. However, this would
> > mean that I *must* depend on alsa-utils, which may or may not be a
> > good thing (you may wish to comment on this).
> 
> OK, that sucks, nevermind then.
> 
> > What would the release team opinion be?
> > 
> I don't think moving oss-compat from Depends to Recommends is worth it
> on its own.  If you have other important bugfixes in the queue then
> maybe you can squeeze this in, otherwise I think we can live with the
> current package.

That sounds sane. Thanks for the review.

Kumar
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