Linux 9 stretch What to do about reviving speakup?

[Kirk Reiser]

In the current espeakup installation on debian sid at least, The
currently running espeakup is killed off long before the newly
installed espeakup is started leaving the person upgrading totally in
the dark so to speak while the upgrade is happening. One wouldn't
think people concerned with accessibility would let something like
this get passed them.

If one does catch on and restarts espeakup so accessiblity continues
then finds themself in the position of the espeakup install script
failing because there's already an espeakup running so they need to
kill off espeakup before running apt -f install. to complete the
proper installation.

Just an observation I've hit twice while upgrading my distro.

   Kirk

On Fri, 29 Mar 2019, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Gregory Nowak, le jeu. 28 mars 2019 22:30:08 -0700, a ecrit:
>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 04:59:48PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
>>> 	I tried it and it basically confirmed what I already know
>>> It tries to fix the problem.  The old script gives errors.  The
>>> new script gives errors so it gives up.  Here is it's output:
>>
>> Try:
>>
>> dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq espeakup
>
> That will not be enough.
>
>
> As mentioned previously on the debian-accessibility mailing list
> (really, that is where this kind of knowledge lives), version
> 1:0.80-5+deb9u2 unfortunately had a bug that needs to be fixed by hand:
>
> A workaround is to fix the issue
> by hand in /lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service, by adding /bin/ to
>
> ExecStart=sh -c 'modprobe speakup_soft && /usr/bin/espeakup -V ${VOICE}'
>
> so it looks like
>
> ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'modprobe speakup_soft && /usr/bin/espeakup -V "${VOICE}"'
>
>
> Then you will be able to upgrade the package to version 1:0.80-5+deb9u3
> normally.
>
> Samuel
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>