speechd-el keeps trying to install on unsupported emacs22

[Manuel Carro]

Binary package hint: speechd-el

Did not install through synaptics.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: speechd-el 2.4-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jun 7 21:10:00 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: speechd-el
Title: package speechd-el 2.4-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[era (era)]

Quoting DpkgTerminalLog.txt:
> Cannot open load file: eieio
> make: *** [braille.elc] Error 255

You seem to be missing the eieio package. The dependencies for speechd 2.4-1

Also, I don't think emacs-snapshot was supported even at the time this bug report was submitted ...?

Sorry for the long time before this response; it appears that speechd-el does not have an active maintainer.

[era (era)]

> The dependencies for speechd 2.4-1

Sorry. The dependencies for speechd 2.4-1 ought to have pulled it in, but maybe it wasn't supported for emacs-snapshot.

[era (era)]

Marked as Confirmed based on the existence of an upstream bug in Debian.

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> Sorry for the long time before this response; it appears that speechd-el does not have an active maintainer.

Sorry, just to clarify: There does not seem to be any volunteers to look after this package in Ubuntu. The Debian maintainer and the upstream for Debian both work to keep the package in some sort of shape, but it appears that upgrading a system with this package installed for emacs22 is riddled with complexities which have not been sorted out entirely.

Symptoms also include "Wrong type argument: listp, :after" apparently from eieo as well.

[era (era)]

Anyway, an unconfirmed but fairly obvious workaround would be to remove unsupported emacs versions like emacs22 or emacs-snapshot and trying to install the package again for emacs23 or emacs24.