Minor hiccups with espeak 1.44.05 and espeakup 0.71-3 on Arch

[Steve Holmes]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:13:43AM -0500, Christopher Brannon wrote:
> One option is to downgrade, assuming that you still have access to
> the old package.  As you know, those usually aren't kept on our mirrors.
> I put a copy of the previous version on my website.  You should be able
> to downgrade with the following command:
> pacman -U http://the-brannons.com/misc/espeak-1.44.02-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
> 
> I hope this gets resolved soon!

I hope so too.  I have a question relating to Arch in the meantime; if
I specify espeak in an ignor option for pacman, will the upgrade
process still tell me if new versions come available?  I ask this
because if I don't formally ignore this package, pacman -Syu would
merely try to upgrade all referenced packages including espeak.
That's one thing where I wish pacman had an option where you could
step through packages one by one; presently, it's an all or none
situation.

Most of the espeak problems I encountered seemed to happen with
emacspeak; hadn't noticed any particular problem with espeakup and
speakup yet.  But when I downgraded, emacspeak began to speak properly
again.  With espeak 0.44.05 or whatever, emacspeak started wining all
over the place with pitch changes.  To much for me.  Emacspeak and its
varying voices is enough and well intentioned but this got to be out
of hand so dropping back to previous version fixed that problem.