hi, I was able to rebuild speech-dispatcher with libao support in squeeze (patch attached). It would be great if one of you debian packagers can apply the patch to speech-dispatcher and push it to squeeze-backports. Thx. Regards halim
--- ./speech-dispatcher-0.7/debian/control 2010-11-26 10:43:58.000000000 +0100 +++ /root/speechd/./speech-dispatcher-0.7/debian/control 2011-07-31 09:07:38.626544949 +0200 @@ -2,14 +2,14 @@ Section: sound Priority: optional Maintainer: Milan Zamazal <p...@debian.org> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), libglib2.0-dev, libdotconf-dev, flite1-dev (>= 1.4), libestools-dev, festival-dev, autotools-dev, libtool, texinfo, libasound2-dev [i386 ia64 alpha amd64 armeb arm hppa m32r m68k mips mipsel powerpc ppc64 s390 s390x sh3 sh3eb sh4 sh4eb sparc], libaudio-dev, libxau-dev, libespeak-dev, libpulse-dev, automake, python, python-central (>= 0.6) +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), libglib2.0-dev, libdotconf-dev, flite1-dev (>= 1.4), libestools-dev, festival-dev, autotools-dev, libtool, texinfo, libasound2-dev [i386 ia64 alpha amd64 armeb arm hppa m32r m68k mips mipsel powerpc ppc64 s390 s390x sh3 sh3eb sh4 sh4eb sparc], libaudio-dev, libxau-dev, libespeak-dev, libpulse-dev, automake, python, python-central (>= 0.6), libao-dev XS-Python-Version: all Homepage: http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd Standards-Version: 3.9.0 Package: speech-dispatcher Architecture: any -Depends: adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.0-10), dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} +Depends: adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.0-10), dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libao4 Recommends: pulseaudio Suggests: speech-dispatcher-festival (= ${source:Version}), speech-dispatcher-doc-cs (= ${source:Version}) Conflicts: libspeechd1 (<< 0.5)