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Package: release.debian.org
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User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
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Please unblock package festival (not yet uploaded)
Apparently, many people would find festival "ready-to-use" if the
default backend were made ALSA. This patch merely adds a change to
festival.scm (a file in debian/ installed into /etc) to make this
change.
Please consider this request. Thanks!
unblock festival/1:2.0.95~beta-3
Kumar
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>From 2e5dd419ff144a8f780b5042b4efb9d30ab3e831 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:55:27 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Make ALSA backend default
* Add patch from Samuel Thibault to make ALSA backend default.
(Closes: #592442)
* Standards Version is now 3.9.1 (no changes needed)
---
debian/changelog | 8 ++++++++
debian/control | 2 +-
debian/festival.scm | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 69ba611..5886f5f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+festival (1:2.0.95~beta-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Add patch from Samuel Thibault to make ALSA backend default.
+ (Closes: #592442)
+ * Standards Version is now 3.9.1 (no changes needed)
+
+ -- Kumar Appaiah <akumar@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:47:04 -0500
+
festival (1:2.0.95~beta-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't depend on alsa-oss on kfreebsd-*, since it is unavailable
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 408a8bc..a810fbb 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.5~),
libncurses5-dev,
quilt (>= 0.40),
texinfo
-Standards-Version: 3.9.0
+Standards-Version: 3.9.1
Homepage: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/festival.git
Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/festival.git
diff --git a/debian/festival.scm b/debian/festival.scm
index 8a6bde4..be5caf7 100644
--- a/debian/festival.scm
+++ b/debian/festival.scm
@@ -28,3 +28,7 @@
(set! server_access_list '("[^.]+" "127.0.0.1" "localhost"))
; Server deny list (hosts)
+
+; Make ALSA the default backend
+(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r $SR $FILE")
+(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
--
1.7.1
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