Comment 2 for bug 876406
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| Luke Yelavich (themuso) wrote Re: [Bug 876406] Re: gnome-orca package fails to recommend (or depend on anything that recommends) a speech synthesizer? | #2 |
The default install of Ubuntu does install Orca and speech-dispatcher, which is needed for orca, however the dependencies are such that things don't necessarily have to depend on each other.
Orca itself depends on speech-dispatcher's python bindings, and that is indeed the case as you can see from the output of "apt-cache show gnome-orca", the package in question being python-speechd. Python-speechd is part of the speech-dispatcher source package, however python-speechd does not have to depend on speech-dispatcher directly, because speech-dispatcher is designed such that it could work over a network if so desired, i.e the python bindings connect to a speech-dispatcher on another machine via the network.
The best solution here is for the python-speechd package to recommend speech-dispatcher, which means that should the user be in a situation where they want to install orca, a speech synthesizer will be installed. Having said that though, this is probably not a critical issue for oneiric. It will be addressed in precise.