[Tts-project] Bug#901960: speech-dispatcher can't be installed

[Alf Gaida]

Package: speech-dispatcher
Version: 0.8.8-4
Severity: grave

Dear Maintainer,

this is a fresh gnome-core system. Installing Gnome fails because speech-dispatcher is not
installable:

# apt install speech-dispatcher
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
speech-dispatcher is already the newest version (0.8.8-4).
speech-dispatcher set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up speech-dispatcher (0.8.8-4) ...
update-rc.d: error: no runlevel symlinks to modify, aborting!
dpkg: error processing package speech-dispatcher (--configure):
 installed speech-dispatcher package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng:
 speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng depends on speech-dispatcher (= 0.8.8-4); however:
  Package speech-dispatcher is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 speech-dispatcher
 speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng
needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Cheers Alf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.17.2-towo.2-siduction-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages speech-dispatcher depends on:
ii  adduser                          3.117
ii  init-system-helpers              1.51
ii  libc6                            2.27-3
ii  libdotconf0                      1.3-0.3
ii  libglib2.0-0                     2.56.1-2
ii  libltdl7                         2.4.6-2.1
ii  libsndfile1                      1.0.28-4
ii  libspeechd2                      0.8.8-4
ii  lsb-base                         9.20170808
ii  speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins  0.8.8-4

Versions of packages speech-dispatcher recommends:
ii  pulseaudio                   11.1-5
ii  sound-icons                  0.1-6
iu  speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng  0.8.8-4

Versions of packages speech-dispatcher suggests:
pn  espeak                      <none>
pn  libttspico-utils            <none>
pn  mbrola                      <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-cicero    <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-doc-cs    <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-espeak    <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-festival  <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-flite     <none>

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