Speakup, 2.6.22, and Git

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 06:03:04AM EST, Jim Grimsby Jr. wrote:
> could you please explain how.  I mean it seems to me that the insadent
> highlights the problems that are interduced when you go a change the methodf
> of doing some thing that does not need changing.there were other problems
> that is why it was changed back. it seems to me that picking it up again
> just means ofering the package on the cd.  or ofering for it to boot

It doesn't work that way. A distribution's development cycle must have a period where bugfixing and stabilising work 
has to take place, and priority over new features. Ubuntu is now in that stage, and will be so until the next release.

Ubuntu dropped speakup for reasons outlined on this list previously, and re-adding it at this point, just because we 
can is not a good enough argument for me, and it would certainly not be a good argument for those who maintain the 
kernel, and the distro.

Since the kernel maintainers have also changed their approach to Kernel development, the only chance we have of getting 
speakup back in, is when it becomes part of the mainline kernel. There is a good chance that I can get a speakup kernel 
created as an extra kernel in the universe repository for next cycle, but it certainly won't be on the main CD that 
gets shipped.

I would gladly help Kirk et al with getting speakup up-to-date, if I had the knowledge to do so, and I dare say many 
others on the list feel the same way, but for now all we can do is wait till the code is updated accordingly, and only 
then once its in mainline, will it be in Ubuntu.
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