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Bug#775137: unblock: espeakup/1:0.71-19



Niels Thykier, le Tue 13 Jan 2015 18:19:26 +0100, a écrit :
> Control: tags -1 d-i
> 
> Ok from RT, CC'ing KiBi for d-i ACK.
> 
> Original message quoted below for KiBi's convenience.

(The patch is only for the installed package, it does not change the d-i
package).

> ~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
> > 
> > [...]
> 

-- 
Samuel
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