cannot build media-applet 0.4 with vala 0.7.1

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Christian and all

When trying to build media-applet (0.4) with vala 0.7.1 (vala version in unstable), preparing the package for the open ITP http://bugs.debian.org/509951 media-applet fails to build:

 ./waf configure --prefix=/tmp/ma
Checking for program gcc : ok /usr/bin/gcc
Checking for compiler version : ok 4.3.3
Checking for program cpp : ok /usr/bin/cpp
Checking for program ar : ok /usr/bin/ar
Checking for program ranlib : ok /usr/bin/ranlib
Checking for compiler could create programs : ok
Checking for compiler could create shared libs : ok
Checking for compiler could create static libs : ok
Checking for flags -O2 : ok
Checking for flags -g -DDEBUG : ok
Checking for flags -g3 -O0 -DDEBUG : ok
Checking for flags -Wall : ok
Checking for gcc : ok
Checking for program msgfmt : ok /usr/bin/msgfmt
Checking for program intltool-merge : ok /usr/bin/intltool-merge
Checking for header locale.h : ok
Checking for program valac : ok /usr/bin/valac
Checking for package gthread-2.0 : ok
Checking for program version valac >= 0.1.6 : ok 0.7.1
Checking for package glib-2.0 >= 2.12.0 : ok
Checking for package gtk+-2.0 >= 2.12.0 : ok
Checking for package libpanelapplet-2.0 : ok
Checking for package libgnomeui-2.0 : ok
Checking for package libbonoboui-2.0 : ok
Checking for package libgnome-2.0 : ok
Checking for package dbus-glib-1 : ok
Checking for package libnotify : ok
Checking for package hal : ok
Checking for package gconf-2.0 : ok
Configuration finished successfully; project is now ready to build.

 ./waf
[ 1/39] copy: data/GNOME_media_applet.server.in.in -> build/default/data/GNOME_media_applet.server.in
[ 2/39] po: po/en_GB.po -> build/default/po/en_GB.mo
[ 3/39] po: po/it.po -> build/default/po/it.mo
[ 4/39] po: po/es.po -> build/default/po/es.mo
[ 5/39] po: po/ru.po -> build/default/po/ru.mo
[ 6/39] po: po/pl.po -> build/default/po/pl.mo
[ 7/39] po: po/fr.po -> build/default/po/fr.mo
[ 8/39] po: po/de.po -> build/default/po/de.mo
[ 9/39] po: po/he.po -> build/default/po/he.mo
[10/39] po: po/en_AU.po -> build/default/po/en_AU.mo
[11/39] po: po/en_CA.po -> build/default/po/en_CA.mo
[12/39] po: po/pt_BR.po -> build/default/po/pt_BR.mo
[13/39] po: po/tr.po -> build/default/po/tr.mo
[14/39] po: po/sv.po -> build/default/po/sv.mo
[15/39] po: po/el.po -> build/default/po/el.mo
[16/39] po: po/nb.po -> build/default/po/nb.mo
[17/39] po: po/pt.po -> build/default/po/pt.mo
[18/39] po: po/da.po -> build/default/po/da.mo
[19/39] po: po/cs.po -> build/default/po/cs.mo
[20/39] valac: src/conf.vala src/main.vala src/media_action_gtk.vala src/media_app_base.vala src/media_applet.vala src/media_application.vala src/media_command_line_parser.vala src/media_device.vala src/media_device_gtk.vala src/media_device_gtk_box.vala src/media_gconf.vala src/media_menu.vala src/media_monitor.vala src/media_notification.vala src/media_tray.vala src/media_window.vala src/utils.vala
media_device.vala:373.3-373.43: warning: unhandled error `GLib.Error'
media_device.vala:377.3-377.44: warning: unhandled error `GLib.Error'
media_device.vala:369.3-369.43: warning: unhandled error `GLib.Error'
media_gconf.vala:36.24-36.97: error: Invalid assignment from owned expression to unowned variable
media_gconf.vala:37.7-37.9: error: The name `val' does not exist in the context of `MediaGConf.exists_key'
media_gconf.vala:20.4-20.82: warning: unhandled error `GLib.Error'
media_tray.vala:58.37-58.40: warning: Argument 1: Cannot pass null to non-null parameter type
media_applet.vala:177.5-177.32: warning: MediaApplet.on_theme_changed hides inherited method `MediaApplicationBase.on_theme_changed'. Use the `new' keyword if hiding was intentional
media_application.vala:38.9-38.29: error: The name `set_tooltip' does not exist in the context of `Gtk.StatusIcon'
Build failed
 -> task failed (err #129): [bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/conf.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/conf.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/main.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/main.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_action_gtk.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_action_gtk.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_app_base.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_app_base.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_applet.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_applet.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_application.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_application.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_command_line_parser.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_command_line_parser.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_device.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_device.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_device_gtk.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_device_gtk.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_device_gtk_box.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_device_gtk_box.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_gconf.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_gconf.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_menu.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_menu.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_monitor.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_monitor.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_notification.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_notification.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_tray.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_tray.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_window.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/media_window.h, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/utils.c, bld:///tmp/media-applet-0.4/src/utils.h]

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