backport vala

[Ilmari Vacklin]

Intrepid has vala version 0.3.2, while Hardy has 0.1.6. The difference in features is quite large and useful for anyone wanting to use the Vala language.

The only reverse dependency outside of Vala itself is libmokoui2-vala, but it only depends on the valac compiler, and doesn't specify a specific version.

0.3.2 builds cleanly in Hardy prevu.

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

I wanted to learn a little bit about Vala so I've tried to compile all kinds of random programs written in Vala. The waste majority of programs does not even compile with the 0.1.6 unfortunately. I tried to compile vala itself (which is written in vala) but that didn't work either? Having 0.3.2 backported would be very useful imo due to the fast pace that vala has evolved with lately.

[Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)]

I'm confirming this one. It builds, installs, and appears to work in Hardy without changes. Normally we don't backport compilers or interpreters but given that this package has no rdepends in Hardy, I think its safe.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

ack from ubuntu-backporters.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

 * Trying to backport vala...
  - <vala_0.3.5-1.dsc: downloading from librarian>
  - <vala_0.3.5-1.diff.gz: downloading from librarian>
  - <vala_0.3.5.orig.tar.gz: downloading from librarian>
I: Extracting vala_0.3.5-1.dsc ... done.
I: Building backport of vala-0.3.5 as 0.3.5-1~hardy1 ... done.

[Ilmari Vacklin (wolverian)]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 02:50:22PM -0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> ** Changed in: hardy-backports
> Status: In Progress => Fix Released

Thanks a lot!