speechd: 0.11.5 -> 0.12.0

[pitkling]

The upgrade to 0.12.0-rc4 enables building speechd-minimal on Darwin (see the upstream changelog).

Things done

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
  • x86_64-darwin
  • aarch64-darwin
• For non-Linux: Is sandboxing enabled in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
  • sandbox = relaxed
  • sandbox = true
• Tested, as applicable:
  • NixOS test(s) (look inside nixos/tests)
  • and/or package tests
  • or, for functions and "core" functionality, tests in lib/tests or pkgs/test
  • made sure NixOS tests are linked to the relevant packages
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
• Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 25.05 Release Notes (or backporting 24.11 and 25.05 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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[jtojnar]

I went through the upstream diffs:

• brailcom/speechd@0.11.5...0.12.0-rc1
• brailcom/speechd@0.12.0-rc1...0.12.0-rc2
• brailcom/speechd@0.12.0-rc2...0.12.0-rc3
• brailcom/speechd@0.12.0-rc3...0.12.0-rc4

The only other significant changes I noticed are:

• addition of PipeWire support – probably not needed for now, libpulse is still recommended for clients by PipeWire IIRC
• addition of Open JTalk module – not currently packaged in Nixpkgs

[pitkling]

@jtojnar Thanks for the help! I did the updates as you suggested, but cannot test them myself before tomorrow.

[pitkling]

@jtojnar: I tested the socket activation on Linux, which seems to work now (I had to add the configure flag --with-systemduserunitdir=${placeholder "out"}/lib/systemd/user).

I also made the svox/pico-related postPatch conditional on withPico to avoid the svox dependency when building speechd-minimal.

[pitkling]

Question for someone more experienced with nixpkgs than me (@jtojnar?): Should this be rebased onto staging, given that it causes >500 rebuilds (at least on Linux; on Darwin it's much less)?

Also, is there anything else I can do to increase the chance to get this reviewed & eventually merged?

[pitkling]

Upstream recently released 0.12.0, so I updated the PR accordingly (and removed a check that's no longer needed since PR #375038 got merged). I had a quick look at the upstream diff between 0.12.0-rc4 and 0.12.0. It looks fine to me. Tested compilation again both on aarch64-darwin and x86_64-linux.

@jtojnar: Could you take another look at this? Would love to get this merged. 🙂