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ftbfs - incompatible with current vala in maverick

Bug #620128 reported by David Sugar
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-dvb-daemon

While originally detected as failing on armel, it in fact fails to build on all platforms. It is written in Vala and is incompatible with current Vala releases, as per Maverick. The latest upstream, 0.1.20, is only updated to vala 0.9. So we may have some time before this is buildable and in sync with vala again.

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David Sugar (dyfet-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

There is a new upstream release, 0.1.21 (released aug 23), which claims to have bug fixes for "latest" vala, which, I am guessing, means it should now support vala 0.10. This is not updated in sid yet, so we would have to do a package for a new upstream release for ubuntu to fix this.

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

 Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

Changed in gnome-dvb-daemon (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
David Sugar (dyfet-deactivatedaccount)
Changed in gnome-dvb-daemon (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → David Sugar (dyfet)
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David Sugar (dyfet-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

To clarify this a little further, maverick has both valac 0.9.7 and "valac-0.10". The package as archived currently in Maverick, by default, chooses valac-0.10 when building, which actually seems odd to me. However, even forcing valac 0.9.7 to be used, it still fails to build from source.

I have produced a preliminary package based on the brand new 0.1.21 release of gnome-dvb-daemon, and this does rebuild successfully under Maverick. No patches, debian or ubuntu, were in 0.1.19 so none needed to be migrated, though the debdiff for the upstream change is remarkably large. I attached the results here.

Changed in gnome-dvb-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → New
assignee: David Sugar (dyfet) → nobody
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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote :

David: The correct version when we upload new upstream versions is -0ubuntu1 (that way -1 from debian is bigger). Corrected (and tweaked the changelog a little to match convention)

Changed in gnome-dvb-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-dvb-daemon - 0.1.21-0ubuntu1

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gnome-dvb-daemon (0.1.21-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Provides support for vala 0.10 (LP: #620128)
 -- David Sugar <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:18:05 +0200

Changed in gnome-dvb-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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