On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:48:55PM -0500, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > However, I do have a problem with this one: > > > * Use Christian Perrier's patch for stopping the call to > > emacspeakconfig. (Closes: #502761) > > The purpose of the emacspeak package is to make emacs accessible to a > blind user. I think configuration during installation is particularly > important for this package. Without configuration, the user is left > with a broken package. Ordinarily that would not be a serious problem > - he only has to read the emacspeak.info documentation and edit > /etc/emacspeak.conf, or else read the comments in README.Debian and > run emacspeakconfig. However, in this case we may have broken the > tool he would use for those tasks. With 26.0-3, he may be annoyed at > answering configuration questions while packages are being unpacked, > but he finishes with a working program. > > The emacspeak-28.0-4 package: > - has all the above mentioned bugs fixed > - is configured using debconf > - has an extra year's worth of upstream development. > > I would like to have emacspeak-28.0-4 and emacspeak-ss-1.12-2 unblocked. > Failing that, I'll try to backport the debconf changes to the 26.0 > package.
Thanks for the explanation, James. I guess it's up to the release team to decide the next course of action. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
