On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:59:15AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > About the upstream support, speakup works with 2.6. But I've looked at > the source code, and safety/security issues are clearly still there. > > > Have these issues been taken up on the Speakup mailing list with the > > developers? > > Yes, and it's hard to have patches merged there :(
That's not good. If they don't deal with the problems then their chances of ever having their work merged by Linus are within epsilon of 0. > > > Also, it was mentioned in a recent mailing list post that Ubuntu > > provides it by default. > > Possibly. > > > Perhaps the version they are using fixes the issues you're referring > > to. > > Clearly no (as it would need a huge refactoring of the source code). I suppose that leaves Yasr as the best alternative unless someone fixes Speakup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
