Tony Baechler, le Thu 24 Jul 2008 06:18:49 -0700, a ?crit : > First, thank you very much, Samuel! I was hoping for a new snapshot to > be released as a Debian package. Is there any chance that the new > package will make it to Lenny with the big freeze looming? Lenny is planned to be shipped with 2.6.26, so there will be a new compilation. Since reports say a new snapshot would fix serious bugs, that can go through the freeze. > I haven't checked if the speech stopping after about 4 KB of text has > been fixed yet. It should. > The two small problems are as follows: First, I followed Samuel's > instructions for building modules. I did the following commands: > > m-a prepare > tar -jxf speakup*.tar.bz2 > cd modules/speakup (I was already in /usr/src) > make > make modules_install Errr. If you installed a debian speakup-source package then you just need to run m-a a-i speakup The instructions you quote above were for the case when you install by hand from a git clone and don't really have to do with debian except m-a prepare that installs the stuff that speakup needs to compile. > The problems are that it isn't obvious that the Speakup source is > installed under /usr/src/modules/speakup. That's debian policy, but as I said above, forget about it, just use m-a a-i speakup, which is documented in /usr/share/doc/speakup-source/README.Debian > Most packages I've compiled from source use a dash instead, such as > make modules-install. I guess these weren't kernel module packages. > For that matter, why not support "make install" instead? Because modules_install is the kernel way. Ask the linux-kernel mailing list ;) > The second problem is slightly more serious. Apparently the Speakup > modules must go in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/speakup. The "make > modules_install" command put them in the extra directory but not in > extra/speakup. I had to manually copy them there. Until I did, it kept > loading the old modules, as /sys/module/speakup/version reported 3.0.2. Again, that's not a speakup issue, but a more general issue: if you install both a debian package and do installation by hand, you'll end up with two versions. Same for any debian package... > Now I have two sets of identical Speakup modules, one in the extra/ > directory and another in extra/speakup/. This should probably be > fixed. On your system, yes, because you have installed by hand. Not a debian issue actually. > Again, other than those small issues, all seems well Ok, cool, I will push that version to Debian. Samuel
