Dear Sergio,
>> My testing agrees it is backward compatible. >> Their appears to be merit in this patch whether of not upstream adopts it. >> > Thanks again. As you may know, upstream is not very active (does not > release often), although I will submit this patch once it gets into Debian > (if it is "approved in Debian" then it is easier for me to tell upstream to > consider it). > Please note it is my current understanding that Debian sends all applied patches upstream for consideration without prejudice to upstream. Patches may be applied to a Debian package for reasons of satisfying the Debian Policy document and to fix bugs. There is no reason to expect upstream to adopt patches - it is entirely at their discretion. Festival has a number of patches including to languages.scm which are convenient for Debian packaging and interoperability which have not been adopted by upstream. Festival is a research software for an upstream serving a very active research community. In a sense it is quite different to a number of packages in Debian which are written predominantly for a non-expert end user. As such it might be expected that Debian's focus and upstream's focus differ. > > I am quite new to the Debian policies and maybe this is not the place to > ask, but have you considered fixing this wish (#638394) [1] in libestools? > The libestools patch [2] and a simple rebuild in Festival would provide > native ALSA support and fix possible audio latencies deriving from the use > of aplay. Moreover, the aplay commands in /etc/festival.scm would not be > needed anymore, and we could let festival to autodetect the audio module for > linux and non-linux users. > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638394 > [2] > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=10;filename=NativeALSA_fixed.patch;att=2;bug=638394 > As mentioned earlier Jean-Philippe and myself have only just started working on festival. I had already seen your other bug report. To some extent this will be influenced by the outcome of how the "hanging" bug is ultimately resolved. I have started playing with the patch though :-). The altered latency was the first thing I noticed :-). We should probably discuss this on that bug report's thread. If you can wait a week while I get a longer time to use the native alsa I can contribute to a more considered discussion. > > Thanks and best regards, > > Sergio > > best regards, Peter
