From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ip15.shellworld.net ([64.49.204.174] helo=server2.shellworld.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I4i2V-0007UF-00 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:51:23 -0400 Received: from server2.shellworld.net (jdashiel@server2.shellworld.net [209.61.182.169]) by server2.shellworld.net (8.13.1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l5UIpNDc076888 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:51:23 GMT (envelope-from jdashiel@shellworld.net) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:51:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Jude DaShiell To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: linuxpackages.net and droplinegnome.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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 18:51:24 -0000 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.