Re: Debian package emacspeak_15-3.deb (fwd)

[John Heim <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu>]

What does it mean "debian package for emacspeak 15"? It includes emacspeak 
in the default installation? It uses emacspeak during the installation?



At 01:55 AM 3/11/02 +0100, you wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 16:06:34 -0500 (EST)
>From: "James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
>Subject: Debian package emacspeak_15-3.deb
>
>
>
>I am uploading a new Debian package for emacspeak 15.  I have changed
>the load-path settings, so the compiled version appears before the
>source.  This should speed both startup and operation.
>
>This package is in the "unstable" Debian distribution.  The next
>Debian release still looks to be several months away.  If you have
>problems with this package, please submit bug reports so I can fix
>them before the release.
>
>Eventually, you should be able to find the new package here in any
>Debian mirror site:
>
>         pool/main/e/emacspeak/emacspeak_15-3.deb
>
>In the mean time, it is also at my web site:
>
>         http://www.mv.com/ipusers/vanzandt/
>
>and at the blinux ftp site.
>
>
>The latest changelog.Debian entries and the README.debian file for the
>emacspeak package are attached.
>
>                        - Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
>
>
>emacspeak (15-3) unstable; urgency=low
>
>   * debian/rules: install xsl directory (thanks to Dimitry Paduchih
>     <paduch@imm.uran.ru>)
>   * lisp/emacspeak-setup: add emacspeak-lisp-directory to end of load-path
>     instead of beginning, and only if "emacspeak" can't be found by
>     load-library.
>   * debian/control: build-depend on texi2html and lynx
>   * debian/control: suggest xsltproc (thanks to Dimitry Paduchih
>     <paduch@imm.uran.ru>)
>
>  -- James R. Van Zandt <jrv@debian.org>  Fri,  8 Mar 2002 22:01:11 -0500
>
>emacspeak (15-2) unstable; urgency=low
>
>   * debian/rules: compile emacspeak-rpm.el and regexp-opt.el
>
>  -- James R. Van Zandt <jrv@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Dec 2001 15:47:29 -0500
>
>emacspeak (15-1) unstable; urgency=low
>
>   * New upstream release
>   * no longer need to adjust emacspeak-load-path.el or emacspeak-setup.el
>   * omit /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/realaudio/.cvsignore
>   * remove patch from emacspeak-advice.el
>   * ignore reference to missing "add-css.pl" while building html docs
>
>  -- James R. Van Zandt <jrv@debian.org>  Sun,  9 Dec 2001 16:13:20 -0500
>
>emacspeak (14-4) unstable; urgency=low
>
>   * debian/control: emacs21 will satisfy emacs dependency
>     (thanks to Saqib Shaikh <ss@saqibshaikh.com>)
>
>  -- James R. Van Zandt <jrv@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:49:42 -0500
>
>emacspeak (14-3) unstable; urgency=low
>
>   * debian/control: just plain "perl" will satisfy dependency
>     (closes:bug#113215)
>   * debian/control: tclx8.3 will satisfy the tclx dependency.
>
>
>
>emacspeak for DEBIAN
>----------------------
>
>Emacspeak is authored by T. V. Raman <raman@cs.cornell.edu>.  These
>are the primary changes made in building the Debian package: html and
>plain text versions of the documentation were added.  A configuration
>script (/usr/sbin/emacspeakconfig) and associated speech server
>descriptions (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/blurbs/*) were
>added.  Manual pages for emacspeak and the configuration script were
>added.  Minor changes are listed in changelog.Debian.
>
>Starting with version 11.0, the Emacspeak sources include a speech
>server written in C++ for the IBM ViaVoice speech synthesis software.
>However, it depends on the ViaVoice runtime kit which does not meet
>the Debian Free Software Guidelines.  (It is available only as object
>code, and only under a temporary license.)  Therefore, support for
>ViaVoice is not included in this Debian package.  IBM is making beta
>copies of ViaVoice for i386 available without charge.  If you would
>like to try it, you can find some information at
>http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/dev/ttssdk_linux.html and
>download from http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/viavoice/linux-p.  You
>need two files - the software developer kit and the run time kit.
>They come in the form of two tar files which in turn contain RPM
>files.  You can convert these to Debian packages and install them as
>follows:
>
>         tar -xf viavoice_tts_rtk_5.tar
>         tar -xf viavoice_tts_sdk_5.tar
>         fakeroot alien -d ViaVoice_TTS_rtk-5.1-1.2.i386.rpm
>         fakeroot alien -d ViaVoice_TTS_sdk-5.1-1.2.i386.rpm
>         dpkg -i --force-overwrite viavoice-tts-rtk_5.1-2.2_i386.deb \
>                 viavoice-tts-sdk_5.1-2.2_i386.deb
>
>(The last step must be performed as root.  If you run alien as root,
>you may omit the use of fakeroot.  The --force-overwrite flag is
>necessary because several files appear in both packages.)  At this
>point, please read /usr/doc/ViaVoiceTTS/ttssd.lic.la.txt.gz,
>/usr/doc/ViaVoiceTTS/ttsrt.lic.ila.txt.gz, and
>/usr/doc/ViaVoiceTTS/ttsrt.lic.ila.eval.txt.gz and decide whether you
>can accept the terms of the IBM license.  If so, you can then unpack
>the Emacspeak sources (either from
>debian/dists/stable/main/source/editors/emacspeak_*.0.orig.tar.gz on
>a cdrom or a Debian archive mirror, or else from
>ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/raman/emacspeak/) and follow the
>instructions in linux-outloud/NOTES to build and install the speech
>server.
>
>Starting with version 10.0, Dr. Raman has rewritten the documentation
>files.  Approximately 100 commands are described there, compared to
>over 800 in the documentation shipped with the previous release.
>Therefore, the user should pay particular attention to the section
>"Using Online Help".
>
>Many command-line applications can be run under emacs, and can
>therefore be made accessible with emacspeak.  Much of this is
>explained in the documentation entitled "Running Terminal Based
>Applications".  However, it is worth emphasizing this point: "For
>regular shell interaction just use M-x shell instead of using the
>terminal emulator."
>
>The example file "tables.html" was supplied by Dr. Raman in a separate
>email.  It may be found in /usr/doc/emacspeak/examples.  It includes a
>sample table with three columns (labeled "item", "date", and
>"amount"), and three rows.  For a discussion of the support for tables
>in emacspeak and w3, see NEWS (or NEWS.gz) in /usr/doc/emacspeak.
>
>The Emacspeak-HOWTO contains additional documentation.  The plain text
>form of this can be found in the Debian package doc-linux, and is
>installed as /usr/doc/HOWTO/Emacspeak-HOWTO.gz.  Other formats are
>also available.  For example, these can be found at sunsite.unc.edu:
>
>   /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/dvi/Emacspeak-HOWTO.dvi.gz
>   /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html/Emacspeak-HOWTO-html.tar.gz
>   /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/ps/Emacspeak-HOWTO.ps.gz
>   /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/sgml/Emacspeak-HOWTO.sgml.gz
>
>There is also an Emacspeak mailing list.  To subscribe, send a message
>to:
>
>         emacspeak-request@cs.vassar.edu
>
>with a subject of:
>
>         subscribe
>
>James R. Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>, Mon, 17 May 1999 20:12:46 -0400
>
>
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