Comment 2 for bug 1705653

please find the fix for this - as mentioned in the changelog, this patch has been accepted upstream

(https://github.com/rilian-la-te/vala-project-packages/commit/bf4f2fbfa67476b067abd25b7fbd5835308194e4)

and I've tested this on Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 via our proposed repo

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntubudgie-dev/+archive/ubuntu/artful-proposed/+sourcepub/8146451/+listing-archive-extra