something of interest

[Deedra Waters]

I'm on the debian-devel mailinglist, and I saw this a couple of days ago.
I'm probably late with this, but I've been busy lately so I thought I'd
pass theese two messages along at any rate.
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : kernel-image-speakup-i386
  Version         : 2.4.20
  Upstream Author : Kirk Reiser and Andy Berdan
* URL             : http://www.linux-speakup.org/speakup.html
* License         : GPL
  Description     : Precompiled speakup Linux Kernel

I plan to provide a speakup-enabled kernel in Debian.  All the
required work is already done.  Since this is my first kernel related
work, I CC'ed this to debian-devel in case anyone does have suggestions
or objections to this.

speakup is a kernel patch which extends linux such that you can use
the keyboard and a external or internal hardware speech synthesizer to
read
the console screen contents.  The only thing which needs to be
set is the synthesizer to be used, which is done via a  kernel boot
option.  As soon as the kernel starts to initialize, your speech
synth should immediately start talking, giving you full control over
very low-level aspects of system-administration.

If no one objects, I plan to upload this next year.

Following is the debian/control file I plan to use:

Source: kernel-image-speakup-i386
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Mario Lang <mlang at debian.org>
Standards-Version: 3.5.8
Build-Depends: debhelper, modutils, kernel-source-2.4.20, kernel-package
(>= 7.
41), tar (>= 1.13.18), kernel-patch-speakup

Package: kernel-headers-2.4.20-speakup
Architecture: any
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Depends: fileutils (>= 4.0)
Provides: kernel-headers
Description: Header files related to Linux kernel version 2.4.20-speakup
 This package provides kernel header files for version
 2.4.20-speakup, for sites that want the latest kernel headers.
 Please read this file for details:
 /usr/share/doc/kernel-headers-2.4.20-speakup/debian.README.gz

Package: kernel-doc-2.4.20-speakup
Architecture: all
Section: doc
Priority: optional
Depends: coreutils | fileutils (>= 4.0)
Provides: kernel-doc-2.4
Description: Linux kernel specific documentation for version
2.4.20-speakup.
 This package provides The various readme's in the 2.4.20-speakup kernel
 Documentation/ subdirectory: these typically contain kernel-specific
 installation notes for some drivers for example. See
 /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.20-speakup/Documentation/00-INDEX for a
list
 of what is contained in each file.  Please read the Changes file, as it
 contains information about the problems, which may result by
 upgrading your kernel.
 .
 Speakup specific documentation can be found in
 /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.20-speakup/Documentation/speakup/

Package: kernel-image-2.4.20-speakup
Architecture: i386
Section: base
Priority: optional
Provides: kernel-image, kernel-image-2.4
Depends: initrd-tools (>= 0.1.34), coreutils | fileutils (>= 4.0),
modutils (>=
 2.4.19)
Suggests: lilo (>= 19.1),  fdutils, kernel-doc-2.4.20-speakup
Description: Linux kernel binary image for version 2.4.20-speakup.
 This package contains the Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20-speakup,
 the corresponding System.map file, and the modules built by the
 packager.  It also contains scripts that try to ensure that the
 system is not left in a unbootable state after an update.
 .
 If you wish to update a bootdisk, or to use a bootloader to make
 installing and using the image easier, we suggest you install the latest
 fdutils (for formatting a floppy to be used as boot disk), and LILO, for
a
 powerful bootloader. Of course, both these are optional.
 .
 Kernel image packages are generally produced using kernel-package,
 and it is suggested that you install that package if you wish to
 create a custom kernel from the sources.
 .
 This kernel package contains a Linux kernel patched with speakup,
 a screen reader for the Linux console. Speakup currently supports the
 following hardware speech synthesizers:

  * DoubleTalk PC/LT
  * LiteTalk
  * Accent PC/SA
  * Speakout
  * Artic Transport
  * Audapter
  * Braille 'N Speak / Type 'N Speak
  * Dectalk External and Express
  * the Apollo2
 .
 NOTE: We don't claim this drivers to be stable, use them on your own
 risk.

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