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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: phasing out app-accessibility/festival
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:13:48
Message-Id: 20070605071052.6900caa1@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: phasing out app-accessibility/festival by William Hubbs
1 On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 23:25:07 -0500
2 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > If there is a reason to keep festival in the tree,
5
6 Bug #163285 [1] has still not been resolved, and some arches have
7 abandoned it without having keyworded espeak, which means that many
8 arches still don't support app-accessibility/espeak now:
9
10 Keywords for app-accessibility/festival:
11
12 | a a a h i m m p p p s s s s x x
13 | l m r p a 6 i p p p 3 h p p 8 8
14 | p d m p 6 8 p c c c 9 a a 6 6
15 | h 6 a 4 k s 6 - 0 r r -
16 | a 4 4 m c c f
17 | a - b
18 | c f s
19 | o b d
20 | s s
21 | d
22 -------------+--------------------------------
23 1.4.3-r3 | + + + + ~ + + + +
24 1.4.3-r4 | ~ + ~ ~ + ~ ~ + ~
25 1.95_beta | ~ + ~ ~ + ~ + ~
26 1.95_beta-r1 | + + + + + + + +
27 1.95_beta-r2 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
28 1.95_beta-r3 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
29
30 Keywords for app-accessibility/espeak:
31
32 | a a a h i m m p p p s s s s x x
33 | l m r p a 6 i p p p 3 h p p 8 8
34 | p d m p 6 8 p c c c 9 a a 6 6
35 | h 6 a 4 k s 6 - 0 r r -
36 | a 4 4 m c c f
37 | a - b
38 | c f s
39 | o b d
40 | s s
41 | d
42 --------+--------------------------------
43 1.19 | + ~
44 1.20-r1 | ~ ~
45 1.22 | ~ ~ ~ ~
46 1.25 | ~ ~ ~ ~
47
48
49 > can someone please contact me and take over the package?
50
51 It's probably more fruitful now to get espeak ported to more arches. It
52 doesn't even seem to have a configure script right now, or other
53 mechanisms to support bigendian systems throughout the build. Smells
54 like Summer of Code. :)
55
56
57 Kind regards,
58 JeR
59
60 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/163285
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