[Pkg-vala-maintainers] Which vala version is the default? -- or, how are/will they be handled?

Sebastian Dröge slomo at circular-chaos.org
Sat Feb 26 12:52:09 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 12:58 +0100, David Paleino wrote:

> > If your package does not care about the vala version, you should build
> > depend on "valac" and use /usr/bin/valac. If your package now already
> > needs vala 0.11/0.12 you must build depend on valac-0.12 and you must
> > tell the build system to use /usr/bin/valac-0.12 (and of course your
> > package can only be in experimental until vala 0.12 is stable).
> 
> Sure, ok.
> So the right course of action is to just use the versioned vala $thing. I'm
> pretty sure this will make transitions more difficult though, but we'll see.

Well, every package that depends on a versioned valac will get
bugreports if that version is going to be removed or going to become the
default version :)
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