[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#992537: libasound2: Upgrading to 1.2.5 disturbs espeakup

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: libasound2
Version: 1.2.5.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: a11y
Justification: Break blind users' access to the computer
Affects: espeakup

Hello,

On upgrading alsa-lib from 1.2.4 to 1.2.5, we are having issues with
the espeakup screen reader. Immediately after the upgrade, the espeakup
audio output is sluggish, as if there were small pieces of silence added
along the sound. I have attached a sample: at the beginning we hear
"space" three times, just like you would hear when running "espeak-ng
space", then I upgrade which produces a bit of output, and eventually we
hear "space" three times again, but distorted a lot, very different from
the "space" at the beginning. On the espeakup side, we get warnings, I
have attached that as well. I guess this is the already-loaded library
which is a bit lost with the newer sets of dynamic modules?

That is really a concern for blind people because the computer becomes
quite unusable until restarting the espeakup screen reader or the whole
computer.

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.13.0 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libasound2-data  1.2.4-1.1
ii  libc6            2.31-13

libasound2 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libasound2 suggests:
ii  libasound2-plugins  1.2.2-2

-- no debconf information

-- 
Samuel
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