Bug#775137: unblock: espeakup/1:0.71-19
Control: tags -1 d-i
Ok from RT, CC'ing KiBi for d-i ACK.
Original message quoted below for KiBi's convenience.
~Niels
On 2015-01-11 22:20, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
>
> Please unblock package espeakup
>
> It has been only reported to me today that currently the boot with
> speech synthesis is very noisy. This surprised me since nowadays kernel
> messages are gone and systemd is silent by default. What happens is
> just that there is a daemon start test race in the espeakup startup
> script, and thus systemd always thinks that espeakup failed to start,
> and thus enters degraded mode, where it prints all startup logs, which
> takes several minutes to get spoken by the speech synthesis!
>
> The start test race is recorded as bug #775131. Fixing it properly
> will mean patching the daemon quite a bit, I'd rather avoid that at
> this stage of the release. In upload 1:0.71-19 of espeakup, whose
> changes are attached, I have instead just enabled the existing STARTTIME
> variable, which makes the script wait for a couple of seconds before
> testing. This will work in most cases, and since with systemd we have
> parallel boot, it should not hurt the user experience (in any case, much
> less than the several-minutes-long noisy messages).
>
> unblock espeakup/1:0.71-19
>
> [...]
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