diff -u speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/debian/changelog speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/debian/changelog
--- speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/debian/changelog
+++ speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+speech-tools (1:1.2.96~beta-4ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix FTBFS due to invalid const char * conversion (LP: #437083).
+
+ -- Ilya Barygin <barygin@gmail.com>  Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:37:26 +0400
+
 speech-tools (1:1.2.96~beta-4) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * debian/rules:
diff -u speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/debian/control speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/debian/control
--- speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/debian/control
+++ speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/debian/control
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 Source: speech-tools
 Section: sound
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Kartik Mistry <kartik@debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Kartik Mistry <kartik@debian.org>
 Uploaders: Kumar Appaiah <akumar@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), autotools-dev, gawk | awk, libesd0-dev, libncurses5-dev, quilt (>= 0.40)
 Standards-Version: 3.8.0
diff -u speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/debian/patches/series speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/debian/patches/series
--- speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/debian/patches/series
+++ speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/debian/patches/series
@@ -47,0 +48 @@
+const_char.diff
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- speech-tools-1.2.96~beta.orig/debian/patches/const_char.diff
+++ speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/debian/patches/const_char.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Index: speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/speech_class/EST_wave_io.cc
+===================================================================
+--- speech-tools-1.2.96~beta.orig/speech_class/EST_wave_io.cc	2009-09-26 12:20:49.000000000 +0400
++++ speech-tools-1.2.96~beta/speech_class/EST_wave_io.cc	2009-09-26 12:21:25.000000000 +0400
+@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
+ 
+ int nist_get_param_int(const char *hdr, const char *field, int def_val)
+ {
+-    char *p;
++    const char *p;
+     int val;
+ 
+     if (((p=strstr(hdr,field)) != NULL) &&
+@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@
+ 
+ char *nist_get_param_str(const char *hdr, const char *field, const char *def_val)
+ {
+-    char *p,*val;
++    const char *p;
++    char *val;
+     int size;
+ 
+     if (((p=strstr(hdr,field)) != NULL) &&