Jarek Czekalski <[email protected]> wrote: > Fine. So we have a fallback solution. Now what my idea was. It's > possible to run speech-dispatcher 0.8 without upgrading dotconf from > 1.0 to 1.3. > > The commit introducing the 1.3 requirement for dotconf is this one: > http://git.freebsoft.org/?p=speechd.git;a=commit;h=eafe367b85d2077d1818dcb469009801d7bf3f4b > Commit message: > dot.conf versions before 1.3 have memory allocation issues which can > cause a crash, so we need at least this version. > > A report on possible crash is also here, on speechd mailing list: > http://lists.freebsoft.org/pipermail/speechd/2010q4/003614.html > > However Paul did not witness any crash reports regarding > speech-dispatcher 0.7 on Debian. Dotconf is used only when reading > configuration files, so maybe the problems (if any) can be present > only at startup. This makes me think that while having problems with > 1.3 dotconf release, we could lower the dotconf requirement to 1.0. > I tested this and it seems to work.
That seems reasonable, but I also think it's time to deal with the updating of the dotconf package. It will require a little work from Debian developers, of course, although I'm sure the latest patch is close to complete, as it has had the benefit of Luke's contribution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
