Getting speakup to run on debian

[Steve Matzura]

Samuel, I fully understand your feelings regarding bug-reporting. But
you know, we often think we're the ones doing something wrong and
hesitate to report anything unless and until we can verify that it's
really really a bug.

Another issue, of course, is, maybe nobody installed from scratch with
the expectation of using Speakup at the console immediately after
installation, which is why nobody thought there was anything wrong.

OK, if it's been reported and fixed, I'm not going to worry about
doing it, I just need to know what I need to do to work around it or
how/when to apply the proper update when it comes out. I can wait. ssh
is my friend until then.\

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:20:18 +0100, you wrote:

>Steve Matzura, on Thu 31 Dec 2015 08:10:41 -0500, wrote:
>> Oh that's bizarre. And the Debian accessibility department says it
>> should be good.
>
>"should" means "that's what we implemented". It does not mean that there
>aren't potential bugs. And there *are*. So please report them.
>
>I'm sorry I keep writing the same, but it's really killing me that a
>dozen months after the Jessie release nobody reported the issue. I have
>already sent a patch to the debian-cd package, and it'll probably be a
>matter of days before it's fixed.  If only the issue had been reported
>before, we'd have had a fixed Jessie way earlier.
>
>> Since my installation is just for testing, should I
>> start again with 7 and try upgrading to 8?
>
>No need to. As I told you privately, just add the network mirror in your
>sources.list, and espeakup should become available.
>
>Samuel
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