Earlier this weekend I used slackpkg to do a system upgrade of slackware-12.2 and ended up having to reinstall the system. The kernel got upgraded and as near as I can tell, what was used to do that upgrade wasn't speakup equipped. This is probably a broader problem with slackpkg since if speakup.s got wiped out logically anyone else who installed a kernel other than bear.i is going to be upgraded with bear.i even if bear.i will not provide useable performance for their needs and system. Unfortunately, slackpkg was written by the slackware team so it's officially recommended. Looks like some exclude code in the configuration file would have helped here but doing that would prevent an upgrade of speakup.s if one were actually available too.
