On Seg, 2015-11-23 at 18:27 -0600, kendell clark wrote: > hi all > This is my first fedora packaging question. I'd like to update, or > help > someone update the espeak package in fedora to use a different > repository other than the sourceforge one maintained by the espeak > developer. THis is because of a few reasons, mainly: 1, the git > repository I'd like to use uses a modern autotools build system that > autodetects all of the things necessary to build espeak and work > properly with both pulse audio and port audio, rather than having to > modify and uncomment the makefile. 2: it provides some additional > varients, which are differently sounding voices that are not included > in > the stock espeak, but do come with the windows NVDA screen reader, > which > apparently a lot of blind people use. 3: and this is most important, > it > includes support for building the extended dictionaries needed to > support chinese and russian languages, if the appropriate options are > added to the ./configure line. I'm still very new to fedora packaging > and obviously can't upload my own packages, but it should be a simple > fix and should clean up thespec file considerably. The git repository > is > located at, http://github.com/rhdunn/espeak.git. Would anyone be > willing > to modify the spec file to use this repository for all supported > fedora > releases? I'm only asking because I've been getting requests to make > espeak speak russian and chinese and attempting to make the stock > version do it is nearly impossible. Reese dunn's autotools system > builds > the dictionaries form source, whereas with the current stable version > from sourceforge you need to download and copy the dictionaries into > the > proper place, /usr/share/espeak-data. Even after doing this, espeak > errors out with a "wrong dictionary version" error and won't use the > dictionaries. > Any thoughts, suggestions, etc? I'm still new to the fedora community > and I'm not sure if there are any procedures that need to be > followed, > package review requests, etc. > Thanks > Kendell clark. Hello , to contact the package maintainer you should fill a bug report : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhid e&component=espeak if maintainer in unresponsive, you may follow https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintai ners Best regards, -- Sérgio M. B. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
