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

[Samuel Thibault]

Control: reassign -1 portaudio19

Hello,

Chris Brannon, on Thu 18 Aug 2016 11:32:40 -0700, wrote:
> I'm almost certain that the problem lies with portaudio, rather than
> libasound.  It's described in my message to the portaudio list, found
> here:
> 
> https://lists.columbia.edu/pipermail/portaudio/2016-August/000599.html

And the discussion shows that the issue really does seem to lie in
there. portaudio maintainers, could you include the upstream patch from

https://lists.columbia.edu/pipermail/portaudio/2016-August/000623.html

?

Without it, blind users using a screen reader have their screen reader
hang every few minutes, making the system basically unusable.

Thanks,
Samuel