Status of Speech Dispatcher package

[Luke Yelavich]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:58:59PM EST, Boris Dusek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is anyone planning to package new releases of Speech Dispatcher (0.7 was
> released recently)?

Yes, since its now in Debian, it can be merged/udpated for Ubuntu maverick.

> I suppose the current packager (Luke Yelavich) has
> no interest to continue to do so based on what he has proposed [1], so on
> behalf of Brailcom, o.p.s., I announce that I will take care of packaging
> current (0.7) and future releases of Speech dispatcher for future Ubuntu
> releases, starting with Maverick (10.10).

Thanks for your offer of help. Even though I proposed that change, this does not mean I will totally abandon maintaining the speech-dispatcher package in Ubuntu. I still hoep that both projects can one day merge and work together again.

> I am already in the process of packaging Speech Dispatcher 0.7 for
> Maverick. Our employee, Milan Zamazal, is already the maintainer of the
> Speech Dispatcher package in Debian [2], so it will not be hard for us to
> maintain the Ubuntu package.

There are a few differences in packaging for Ubuntu that need to be carried, so the update procedure for this package now is what is known as a merge. This shouldn't take me too long to do, so I'm willing to help whereever I can to get this updated.

Luke