[needs-packaging] festival-mbrola

to be more specific, package from
  http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/downloads/festival/1.95/
the following files
  festvox_us1.tar.gz
  festvox_us2.tar.gz
  festvox_us3.tar.gz
and create a depency on mbrola-voices, see also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/543651

and also the file:
  festvox_en1.tar.gz

create the following set of links

/usr/share/festival/voices/english
us1_mbrola -> /usr/local/share/festival/lib/voices/english/us1_mbrola/
us2_mbrola -> /usr/local/share/festival/lib/voices/english/us2_mbrola/
us3_mbrola -> /usr/local/share/festival/lib/voices/english/us3_mbrola/
en1_mbrola -> /usr/local/share/festival/lib/voices/english/en1_mbrola/

and also these links
/usr/local/share/festival/lib/voices/english# ls -ltrRa *|grep mbrola
us1_mbrola:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2010-03-24 19:32 us1 -> /usr/local/share/mbrola-voices/us1
us2_mbrola:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2010-03-24 20:22 us2 -> /usr/local/share/mbrola-voices/us2
us3_mbrola:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2010-03-24 20:22 us3 -> /usr/local/share/mbrola-voices/us3
en1_mbrola:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2010-03-24 20:22 en1 -> /usr/local/share/mbrola-voices/en1/

of course /usr/local/share should be /usr/share

Best would be to complete https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/543651 first. Then create this package and update all links in the examples above to the proper ones in /usr/share/ in stead of /usr/local/share

Err, why having to complete 543651 first? To get a much better fine-grain dependency, festival-mbrola should rather build a series of packages, one for each language, each of which depending on the corresponding mbrola voice package. If you depend on all the mbrola voices at once, you'll get several MiB installation while only 4 languages are supported so far.

Apart from that, yes it's probably a good idea to package festival-mbrola (though the /usr/local parts of paths are probably wrong :) ). I would suggest to maintain it in a repository shared with Debian. I don't know the ubuntu possibilites, but alioth.debian.org happily greets and give write access to guests.

Ah, you have much more inside knowledge of this, so I'll leave it to you. These files make MBROLA voices in festival possible, but is that is taken care of in another way, that is fine by me. If all is being pushed from Debian to Ubuntu, could you make references in the Ubuntu issues to the Debian issues? Thanks.

I'll ITP the festvox-us1, festvox-us2, festvox-us3, festvox-en1 series
of package, each containing just the file. Yes, I'll reference the LP
number.

Ok, packaged, successfully tested, and uploaded.

Test building before syncing from testing.

I've sync'd this, it'll need to go through Source NEW and Binary NEW before being available in precise.

last release November 2010
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