Re: multiple ITPs - mbrola voices

2018-04-22 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Paul, > > Well, that becomes a question of taste. We do need separate binary > > packages anyway, I don't see how using separate source packages makes it > > uglier. Naturally, separate binary packages are required but that doesn't justify the compounding of any problem by adding a whole set o

Re: multiple ITPs - mbrola voices

2018-04-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 21-04-18 23:51, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Well, that becomes a question of taste. We do need separate binary > packages anyway, I don't see how using separate source packages makes it > uglier. Being one that uploads voices as well, I agree with Samuel on this. Note though (and I started a

Re: multiple ITPs - mbrola voices

2018-04-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Chris Lamb, le sam. 21 avril 2018 16:28:49 +0100, a ecrit: > Let me play devil's advocate for a second… Whilst I would agree > that uploading a package containing all the existing ones for an > addition might potentially be wasteful of mirror bandwidth, rsync & > friends would surely be clever eno

Re: multiple ITPs - mbrola voices

2018-04-21 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Jeremy et al., > It might be a bit late to try to change the source packaging for > all of that. Oh, I don't know it's ever to late to improve something :) Let me play devil's advocate for a second… Whilst I would agree that uploading a package containing all the existing ones for an additio

Re: multiple ITPs - mbrola voices

2018-04-21 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 4:02 AM, Chris Lamb wrote: > Secondly, am sorry for not seeing this until these hit NEW. For 100% > clarity, I've put them "on hold" there for the time being. Chris, are you aware that there are already about 45 mbrola voices packages in Debian, even before these new ITPs?

Re: multiple ITPs - mbrola voices

2018-04-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Chris Lamb, le sam. 21 avril 2018 09:02:44 +0100, a ecrit: > Anyway, did you consider using dpkg's support for multiple source > tarballs? Yes. The thing is: I don't expect many updates (if any) of the existing packages: since they basically ship a couple of files in well-established plac

Re: multiple ITPs - mbrola voices

2018-04-21 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Samuel, > There is currently some momentum to make espeak-ng able to use mbrola > voices. I am thus uploading them to Debian. Here is the list of ITPs: [snip 30 ITPs] First, thanks for packaging this :) Secondly, am sorry for not seeing this until these hit NEW. For 100% clarity, I've put t

Re: multiple ITPs - mbrola voices

2018-04-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Paul Gevers, le jeu. 19 avril 2018 08:59:46 +0200, a ecrit: > I even thought about creating one > big package (with multiple tars) but decided against that as the tar > balls for voices are huge nowadays. And one addition would mean a whole > new source version (with its load on my connection and s

Re: multiple ITPs - mbrola voices

2018-04-19 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 19-04-18 08:55, Samuel Thibault wrote: > There are quite a few things which are specific to mbrola (finding the > voice file, a test file, package description & licence), but perhaps it > can be made more generic? Let's hope so. > One thing I didn't automate is upgrading, because it doesn'

Re: multiple ITPs - mbrola voices

2018-04-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Paul Gevers, le jeu. 19 avril 2018 08:33:23 +0200, a ecrit: > On 18-04-18 23:01, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > There is currently some momentum to make espeak-ng able to use mbrola > > voices. I am thus uploading them to Debian. Here is the list of ITPs: > > I recently looked also at the new

Re: multiple ITPs - mbrola voices

2018-04-18 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Samuel, On 18-04-18 23:01, Samuel Thibault wrote: > There is currently some momentum to make espeak-ng able to use mbrola > voices. I am thus uploading them to Debian. Here is the list of ITPs: I recently looked also at the new (well...) festival voices. I have been playing with one master te

multiple ITPs - mbrola voices

2018-04-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, There is currently some momentum to make espeak-ng able to use mbrola voices. I am thus uploading them to Debian. Here is the list of ITPs: Bug#896026: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-ar1 -- Arabic male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896027: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-ar2 -- Arabic male voice for M