From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HvSbB-0000j3-NF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:32:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l556Vu3G011520; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 06:31:56 GMT Received: from homeless.linbsd.net (homeless.linbsd.net [64.127.112.66]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l556U24A009148; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 06:30:02 GMT Received: from [66.92.11.131] (dsl092-011-131.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.11.131]) by homeless.linbsd.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2843557880; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 23:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: phasing out app-accessibility/festival From: Ned Ludd To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: gentoo Accessibility In-Reply-To: <20070605042507.GA11411@linux1> References: <20070605042507.GA11411@linux1> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:30:01 -0700 Message-Id: <1181025001.7189.7.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 85ee148d-72e5-4983-ab3e-f2e411c481ab X-Archives-Hash: 302c022a0d0727469b0b0f9fa7d550d8 On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 23:25 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > app-accessibility/festival has not done a release upstream in some time. Does not look like they have declared it dead however. > We currently have several bugs against this package, including one > security bug. I attached a patch to the security bug for you guys. > Since a lot of blind people are now using espeak as their software > speech synthesizer, and the new version of emacspeak (version 26, which > will be in portage pretty soon) can support espeak, I would like to know > this. > > Once emacspeak 26 is in the tree, I would like to move festival out of > accessibility, or remove it from the tree. One thing to note here is that espeak is only marked stable on amd64 while festival is marked stable on mips ppc amd64 ppc64 sparc ia64 alpha hppa x86. Removing it from the tree does not seem like an ideal alternative any time soon. > If there is a reason to keep festival in the tree, > can someone please contact me and take over the package? I don't want to take it over. But I've used festival and friends often in the past for lazy reading days. I know it's also used supported by asterisk and a few other programs. -- Ned Ludd -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list