Bug 622624

Summary: missing example files for festival distribution
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bob Goodwin <bgoodwin91006>
Component: festivalAssignee: Bruno Wolff III <bruno>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Bob Goodwin 2010-08-09 23:37:18 UTC
Description of problem:
The rpm install of festival does not include the example files distributed with festival and referred to in the user's manual included in festival-doc. I have installed festival, festival-doc, festival-speechtools, festival-lib. and the matching -devel rpms. There are no example files as referred to in the manual. There should be several xxx.xml files in /usr/share/festival/examples.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.2.96

How reproducible:
ls /usr/share/festival/examples


Steps to Reproduce:
1. N/A
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Actual results:
No example files

Expected results:
several .xml example files

Additional info:
A 'locate' search for a specific named example (doremi.xml) file shows that the file is missing; not merely located somewhere else.

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Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2013-03-02 02:01:27 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
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Comment 5 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 15:19:05 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
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Comment 6 Matthew Miller 2016-10-19 21:22:57 UTC
The Festival package in Fedora needs a lot of work to update to a newer release, fix a lot of bugs, and generally clean up the packaging. And, despite best intentions, we just haven't had the developer interest in doing so. 

The current plan is to retire Festival from Fedora. See thread at https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UOL4ETKKOFGTFZZ36V726OF7UTHYMEYP/ for discussion.

Despite being large, slow, and fragile, Festival is interesting software and as far as I know can produce the best quality results of any open-source TTS system. It would be nice if there is interest in continuing it, but that should probably be done from a clean slate in any case.

In the meantime, I think it's most honest to close the currently-open bugs as "WONTFIX". Thanks everyone for your reports and effort in making Fedora better.