From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from trueband.net ([216.163.120.10]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I4isb-0008DY-00 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:45:13 -0400 Received: (qmail 22557 invoked by uid 1006); 30 Jun 2007 19:45:13 -0000 Received: from sberry@northlc.com by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(0.1/100.0):. Processed in 2.312365 secs); 30 Jun 2007 19:45:12 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=100.0 X-Spam-Level: Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.19) by -v with SMTP; 30 Jun 2007 19:45:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 20476 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2007 19:44:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO yellobow) (67.54.156.70) by -v with SMTP; 30 Jun 2007 19:44:54 -0000 Message-ID: <00ba01c7bb4f$20d8fb50$c701a8c0@yellobow> From: "Scott Berry" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: Subject: Re: linuxpackages.net and droplinegnome.org Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:44:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:45:13 -0000 Boy I am not sure. As for Fedora it doesn't look like they do. They are talking captia on Fedora but it hasn't went too far yet. Also there is a Debian packager Mario if he is on the list I would like to hear his experiences. Scott ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" To: Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:51 PM Subject: linuxpackages.net and droplinegnome.org > Yesterday I managed to get myself an account on droplinegnome.org I left a > bug message since droplinegnome hasn't yet got festival where one can > install it and use it to get orca talking. Today I managed to build the > astrolog 5.40 package for slackware and did it correctly enough that the > package shows up in my packages list when I install it and so far as I can > tell the whole package works too. I just learned how to make a slackware > package that would do that. Unfortunately linuxpackages.net uses capsha's > so even though I built a package I can't register and submit it. Not good > news for anyone else in the speakup community wanting to submit a package. > What I'm curious to know though is what the situation is with debian > fedoraproject, gentoo, and ubuntu. Do these sites also block totally > blind package submitters from registering? It was a surprise to me > droplinegnome didn't place such an impediment in my way but I'm not going > to hold that against them. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.14/880 - Release Date: 6/29/2007 > 2:15 PM > >