Package: speech-dispatcher Version: 0.8-7 Followup-For: Bug #745696 Is there any possibility of this change occurring in the package? Perhaps with a patch provided? The default GNOME desktop pulls in speech-dispatcher, which has become one of the few packages left in a default desktop install that runs an init script with a default file disabling it. I'd like to remove that if possible.
One suggested path for this, to minimize any possibility of disrupting someone's working setup even if they use system-wide mode: - Stop shipping the init script or /etc/defaults file in the package. Optionally provide the init script (minus the /etc/defaults bits) as an example in /usr/share/doc/speech-dispatcher/examples/ for people to enable if they want it. This will fix the issue for all new installs. - On existing installations, dpkg will not remove /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher or /etc/defaults/speech-dispatcher, so existing setups will continue to work. - To remove the startup script for the common case of people *not* having enabled the system-wide speech-dispatcher (which README.Debian recommends against enabling), the postinst can check /etc/defaults/speech-dispatcher, and if it doesn't have RUN=yes, rm /etc/defaults/speech-dispatcher and /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher . Does that sound reasonable? - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages speech-dispatcher depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libdotconf0 1.3-0.2 ii libespeak1 1.48.04+dfsg-1 ii libflite1 2.0.0-release-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.2-1 ii libltdl7 2.4.2-1.11 ii libspeechd2 0.8-7 ii lsb-base 9.20150917 ii speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins 0.8-7 Versions of packages speech-dispatcher recommends: ii pulseaudio 7.1-2 Versions of packages speech-dispatcher suggests: pn libttspico-utils <none> pn speech-dispatcher-doc-cs <none> pn speech-dispatcher-festival <none> -- no debconf information
