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Bug#816891: jessie-pu: package espeakup/1:0.71-19



Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> (2016-03-07):
> cc += kibi
> 
> On Sun, Mar  6, 2016 at 11:21:24 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> > Package: release.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: jessie
> > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > Usertags: pu
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'd like to upload to Jessie the attached changes to the espeakup
> > package.
> > 
> > The current Jessie debian installer got a bug which made it only support
> > german, english, french, and portuguese.  That is because the file
> > hierarchy of voices has changed in the updated upstream version, and
> > they had provided compatibility links, but only for those languages.
> > 
> > The attached change uses a mere recursive grep to find language
> > identifiers instead of hardcoding the path. That actually allows to drop
> > the special-casing of the nb language. The change also special cases
> > gallician, for which we have no native support, but the portuguese voice
> > should be fine enough, better than english anyway. It also makes the
> > espeakup daemon select the voice not only by name, but also by property,
> > just like the espeak program does, which is needed when the voice is
> > chosen by the language it supports and not by the identifier of the
> > voice.
> > 
> Since the changes affect d-i in stable, I'd like a kibi-ack.

The whole thing looks like a good idea, and I trust Samuel's tested this
properly, so feel free to accept it into p-u.


KiBi.

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