On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 00:37 +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > Hi! > > [preface] > As some of you may notice through pacman patches and bugspam > - I've _finally_ got issues sorted out and put my lazy ass in front of > my Arch box^W laptop. > So don't wonder if you'll get silly questions from me about the > current status of things. > > This is the first such mail. > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6174 > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7864 > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9332 > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9811 > All these reports are about festival which is long-time orphan. > Does anyone want to maintain it? If not - I suggest drop it to AUR so > users can take care of it. > > Similar situations is with some of Damir's packages. > Does anyone know what happened to him? > And what we should do with scientific packages he maintained?
Festival is the only backend we support in gnome-speech at this moment, but that doesn't matter anyways, as I will import espeak from community soon and add it as a dependency for gnome-speech. It was requested recently, as espeak works much better than festival.
