Orca requires speech-dispatcher both as a BUILD_DEPENDS and as a RUN_DEPENDS. If py3-speech-dispatcher is not detected during the configure stage, Orca is unable to produce any speech output, meaning that people who are completely blind are unable to use the Gnome desktop after logging in.
Over to maintainer.
All the orca files are installed regardless if the python3 bindings of speech-dispatch are installed or not. And unless I read the configure wrong it only does reporting if speech-dispatcher is available on build-time or not. the speechdispatcherfactory.py file has the following: [code] try: import speechd except: _speechd_available = False else: _speechd_available = True try: getattr(speechd, "CallbackType") except AttributeError: _speechd_version_ok = False else: _speechd_version_ok = True [/code] So it check on run-time if speech-dispatcher is available or not. Could you be more specific why you think orca is miss-configured?
Hi, Thanks for getting back to me. While it is true that all Orca files are installed regardless of the speech-dispatcher bindings, Orca itself does not detect speech dispatcher unless it's present at configure time. When you launch Orca, the first thing it shows Is "Speech unavailable" unless it finds the bindings during, say, BUILD_DEPENDS. (My build machine is sadly turned off at present, so I cannot provide you with the Poudriere log). If you are able to find a log of the currently built package, you will see that, very close to the bottom, it states Use Speech-dispatcher: no). If the Python bindings are present, for example, as a build dependency, Orca will use Speech Dispatcher and Orca is able to speak. This, in turn, enables blind people to use the desktop without too much trouble. I hope the above makes sense. All the best, Peter.
I found a public build log from a FreeBSD package cluster. A small snippet of the log is below (pertaining to the bug at hand, only). [code] config.status: executing default commands config.status: executing po/stamp-it commands NOTE: Braille support requires BrlTTY >= 3.9 and BrlAPI >= 0.5.1. NOTE: Speech support requires speech-dispatcher >= 0.8. Use speech-dispatcher: no Use brltty: no Use liblouis: no [/code] The complete build log resides at: http://package19.nyi.freebsd.org/data/103i386-default-build-as-user/409902/logs/orca-3.18.2.log All the best, Peter.
I don't know exactly what happened since I filed this bug, but apparently, the public packages now includes speech support with Orca, meaning that we can now use the desktop. Therefore, I'll mark this bug as closed and fixed. (If possible)