speakup paste problem on debian

[Jason White]

Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at shellworld.net> wrote:
> If there's no text on the clipboard and you hit the paste command, speakup 
> says paste.  If there's any text on the clipboard and you hit paste, 
> speakup pastes debian to the point the keyboard no longer works and the 
> computer has to be taken down with the power button and this is on an 
> amd64 athelon k8 computer.  

If the bug can be reproduced so easily, it shouldn't be hard for someone with
kernel development expertise to fix it.

Maybe Speakup needs an "outreach program" or "summer of code" person, to work
on some of the known issues, or perhaps it requires more knowledge than this
and requires attention of an experienced kernel developer.