.speech-dispatcher not found in home

Problem exists in latest package.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start
 * Starting Speech Dispatcher speech-dispatcher [Thu Aug 27 14:12:53 2009 : 980586] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.6.7 starting
[Thu Aug 27 14:12:53 2009 : 982099] speechd: Directory .speech-dispatcher not found in home
Can't create pid file in /var/run/speech-dispatcher.pid, wrong permissions?

$ apt-cache policy speech-dispatcher
speech-dispatcher:
  Installed: 0.6.7+git20090514-0ubuntu7
  Candidate: 0.6.7+git20090514-0ubuntu7
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.7+git20090514-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Setting up speech-dispatcher (0.6.7+git20090514-0ubuntu8) ...
 * Starting Speech Dispatcher speech-dispatcher [Fri Aug 28 12:09:03 2009 : 663776] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.6.7 starting
[Fri Aug 28 12:09:03 2009 : 665101] speechd: Directory .speech-dispatcher not found in home
Can't create pid file in /var/run/speech-dispatcher.pid, wrong permissions?
invoke-rc.d: initscript speech-dispatcher, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing speech-dispatcher (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-speechd:
 python-speechd depends on speech-dispatcher (>= 0.6.7+git20090514-0ubuntu8); however:
  Package speech-dispatcher is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python-speechd (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 speech-dispatcher
 python-speechd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up speech-dispatcher (0.6.7+git20090514-0ubuntu8) ...
 * Starting Speech Dispatcher speech-dispatcher [Fri Aug 28 12:09:04 2009 : 634294] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.6.7 starting
[Fri Aug 28 12:09:04 2009 : 635080] speechd: Directory .speech-dispatcher not found in home
Can't create pid file in /var/run/speech-dispatcher.pid, wrong permissions?
invoke-rc.d: initscript speech-dispatcher, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing speech-dispatcher (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-speechd:
 python-speechd depends on speech-dispatcher (>= 0.6.7+git20090514-0ubuntu8); however:
  Package speech-dispatcher is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python-speechd (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 speech-dispatcher
 python-speechd

Have confirmed here on latest karmic, working on a fix as I write this.

 affects ubuntu/speech-dispatcher
 status inprogress
 assignee themuso

This bug was fixed in the package speech-dispatcher - 0.6.7+git20090514-0ubuntu9

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speech-dispatcher (0.6.7+git20090514-0ubuntu9) karmic; urgency=low

  * Actually add debian/patches/19_enable_autospawn_config.dpatch to the 00list
    file.
  * debian/patches/20_fix_homedir_bug.dpatch: Only check and use contents in
    $HOME/.speech-dispatcher if the home dir of the current user starts with
    /home. Patch pushed upstream. (LP: #351421)
  * debian/rules: Re-add the PIDPATH variable passed to the configure script,
    accidentally dropped with the move to cdbs.

 -- Luke Yelavich <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:24:33 +1000