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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: accessibility@g.o, sound@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: app-accessibility/festival and reverse dependencies
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 22:21:43
Message-Id: 20190605012129.aa5ec108cbfe56bca15fd3e0@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: app-accessibility/festival and reverse dependencies by Andrew Savchenko
1 On Wed, 15 May 2019 19:14:04 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote:
2 > On Mon, 13 May 2019 11:02:40 -0500 William Hubbs wrote:
3 > > On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 11:23:02PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
4 > > > On Sat, 11 May 2019 16:27:16 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
5 > > > > # Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@g.o> (11 May 2019)
6 > > > > # Outdated, EAPI=2, unmaintained, segfaults immediately.
7 > > >
8 > > > Hm, it definitely doesn't segfault for me...
9 > > > Works like charm right now.
10 > >
11 > > ...
12 > >
13 > > > If someone wants to take them, go ahead. If nobody volunteers, I'll
14 > > > take at least festival and festival-ru after a few weeks.
15 > >
16 > > Everything else Andreas says is correct.
17 > >
18 > > Festival is outdated (2.4 is available upstream) and it is eapi 2,
19 > > so if we are going to maintain it, we need to bump and move to EAPI 7,
20 > > then we need to look into all of the reverse dependencies and either
21 > > update or remove them.
22 > >
23 > > Festival and its rdeps ar a beast, so if anyone wants to take them,
24 > > be prepared for a lot of work. Please leave the accessibility project
25 > > as a backup maintainer. I don't know how the sound project feels about
26 > > being involved in the maintenance, so imo ask them also.
27 >
28 > I can't handle everything, so let's start from something small, one
29 > task per step. I think updating festival and some of its
30 > localizations will be a good start.
31 >
32 > I'm interesting in festival because quality of pronounced text is
33 > the best I know of and sometimes I have problems with "how to
34 > pronounce this stuff poperly".
35
36 Looks like I need to update app-accessibility/speech-tools as well.
37 Do you mind if I'll take it as well?
38
39 Best regards,
40 Andrew Savchenko

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