I'd be interested in taking over the package... I applied to be a Debian developer quite some time ago and I passed all the steps in the process but was never given an account on the system...
Tommy On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 05:08:25PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > "Justin Ekis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > "Mario Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > > >> Before I do anything speakup related with d-i, the release-critical > >> bugs on kernel-image-2.4.20-speakup need to be fixed. According > >> to those reports, the precompiled package does not work at all. This > >> is not really acceptable as a base for further d-i work... > > > > I got a Sid system somewhat running and tried this kernel on it. With > > sighted assistance I was able to see that there is a kernel panic and read > > the message. I can do it again and write the exact error for you if you'd > > like. It was that the root filesystem couldn't be mounted and to append the > > correct root mount point on the command line. > > I'm very puzzled over this error, I fail to see what speakup > could possibly have to do with any kind of filesystems. > > > Lilo already does this, but I tried explicitly appending it myself > > anyway. Same panic message. Other kernels do boot fine. > > > > I don't know what's causing it, but here are a few possible suggestions. I'm > > by no means a speakup expert in the least though, you may want to ask on the > > speakup mailing list. > > What version of speakup are you using? There is a new version 1.5 you can > > download. > > I was using a CVS snapshot from december 2002. You can check this particular > snapshot out by looking at the kernel-patch-speakup package (produced from > speakup-cvs source package). > > > There are also many changes in the latest cvs version. Two notables > > are much better cursor tracking, and the synthesiser drivers are now > > modularized. I'm not sure if it fixes your problem, but they say it > > was a major code rewrite so it's very possible. > > If there is a recent "release" version, I think I want > to avoid the CVS since I'm not really able to test the stability of the CVS > code. > I was only using a CVS snapshot last time since that was at a point where > speakup 1.0 was very old already, and I was hoping to gain something > for users by using the CVS version. > > In general, if anyone of the speakup users community > would like to take over the Debian package maintainership, I'd be > happy to give it away, I'd even do sponsoring, provided > the packages are well done. Otherwise, I'll just try and play > middle-man as long as it works. > > -- > CYa, > Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> > | Get my public key via finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
