Package: festival Version: 1.4.3-22 Severity: normal
Thanks for maintaining debian's festival package. As I was asked, I'm testing the latest version from unstable. The following command $ apt-get install festival festival-doc festlex-cmu festvox-kallpc16k festvox-kdlpc16k reported this error adduser: No options allowed after names. dpkg: error processing festival (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 I see in /var/lib/dpkg/info/festival.postinst the following line adduser festival --quiet --system --ingroup audio --no-create-home It turned out that festival called adduser with a syntax that's proscribed by the version of adduser that I was using: 3.49. Upgrading the adduser package to version 3.105, and repeating the above apt-get command, solved the problem. Please either 1.) make festival depend on a recent version of adduser or 2.) improve the syntax of the call to adduser. Thanks, Kingsley -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages festival depends on: ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-7 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libc6 2.6.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - ii libestools1.2 1:1.2.2-2 Edinburgh Speech Tools Library ii libgcc1 1:4.2.2-3 GCC support library ii libncurses5 5.6+20070812-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++6 4.2.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii lsb-base 3.1-22 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip pi sgml-base 1.26 SGML infrastructure and SGML catal ii sysv-rc 2.86.ds1-33 System-V-like runlevel change mech Versions of packages festival recommends: ii festvox-kallpc16k [festival-v 1.4.0-5 American English male speaker for ii festvox-kdlpc16k [festival-vo 1.4.0-5 American English male speaker for -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]