The default install of Ubuntu does install Orca and speech-dispatcher, which is needed for orca, however the dependencies are such that things don't necessarily have to depend on each other.
Orca itself depends on speech-dispatcher's python bindings, and that is indeed the case as you can see from the output of "apt-cache show gnome- orca", the package in question being python-speechd. Python-speechd is part of the speech-dispatcher source package, however python-speechd does not have to depend on speech-dispatcher directly, because speech- dispatcher is designed such that it could work over a network if so desired, i.e the python bindings connect to a speech-dispatcher on another machine via the network. The best solution here is for the python-speechd package to recommend speech-dispatcher, which means that should the user be in a situation where they want to install orca, a speech synthesizer will be installed. Having said that though, this is probably not a critical issue for oneiric. It will be addressed in precise. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876406 Title: gnome-orca package fails to recommend (or depend on anything that recommends) a speech synthesizer? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-orca/+bug/876406/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
