On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:50:39PM EST, Jason White wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:59:15AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > About the upstream support, speakup works with 2.6. But I've looked at > > the source code, and safety/security issues are clearly still there. > > > > > Have these issues been taken up on the Speakup mailing list with the > > > developers? > > > > Yes, and it's hard to have patches merged there :( > > That's not good. If they don't deal with the problems then their chances of > ever having their work merged by Linus are within epsilon of 0.
I personally believe that speakup is a lost cause, for this very reason.
> > > Also, it was mentioned in a recent mailing list post that Ubuntu
> > > provides it by default.
> >
> > Possibly.
> >
> > > Perhaps the version they are using fixes the issues you're referring
> > > to.
> >
> > Clearly no (as it would need a huge refactoring of the source code).
>
> I suppose that leaves Yasr as the best alternative unless someone fixes
> Speakup.
Yes indeed. Unfortunately, the primary developer of SPeakup has a "works
for me" attitude, and won't include most things unless someone sends him
the patches.
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