[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#833950: libasound2: brltty-espeak stops working with 1.1.2-1

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Sebastian Humenda <shumenda at gmx.de> [2016-08-17 07:59 +0200]:

> Hi,
> 
> Elimar Riesebieter schrieb am 11.08.2016, 19:40 +0200:
> >* Sebastian Humenda <shumenda at gmx.de> [2016-08-10 20:30 +0200]:
> >
> >> Package: libasound2
> >> Version: 1.1.2
> >> Severity: serious
> >> Tags: patch
> >> Justification: breaks system for blind users [RC, stretch]
> >> 
> >> After an upgrade to the specified version, BRLTTY starts up with speech working
> >> (brltty-espeak is using libao -> libasoun2), but speech stops working after
> >> roughly a minute. The BRLTTY process is still running, but speech cannot be
> >> brought back, only a restart of BRLTTY fixes this issue. All other playback of
> >> sound using ALSA works fine. Since it is not related to any changes in BRLTTY
> >> (tried several stable versions), the issue must be in libasound2. The provided
> >> patch fixes the issue reliably for me.
> >
> >Thanks for the patch.
> The patch seems to introduce another issue. Aplay does not terminate after
> playback and keeps the handle to the file open as well. I use aplay for
> notifications on my system, so ended up with no free file descriptors after a
> while. This behaviour is not present in the unpatched version.
> Please let me know if there is anything else I can do.

So I cancelled the upload. I think we have to wait for a response
from alsa-devel to Samuels post there.

http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2016-August/111836.html

Elimar
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