GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 668812
Non-parallel installable files in vala
Last modified: 2012-06-24 15:09:10 UTC
vala is in general quite nice to deal with, for parallel-installability. However, there are three files which are a bit blocking: /usr/share/aclocal/vala.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/vapigen.m4 /usr/share/vala/Makefile.vapigen It's unclear to me how to really deal with them. Is there any guarantee that the more recent versions of those files will always provide a compatible version of what was in the old versions of those files?
I'm ok with making those guarantees for the vapigen stuff if Jürg doesn't object.
Sounds fine to me.
Then we should also probably be installing those files in unversioned builds.
(In reply to comment #3) > Then we should also probably be installing those files in unversioned builds. Do you mean in versioned builds? In unversioned builds, they are already installed. I don't think we should install those files in versioned builds as that would cause package conflicts. The idea is that distributions enable unversioned build for the most recent version and disable it for the older versions.
(In reply to comment #4) > Do you mean in versioned builds? In unversioned builds, they are already > installed. D'oh! Yes. > I don't think we should install those files in versioned builds as that would > cause package conflicts. The idea is that distributions enable unversioned > build for the most recent version and disable it for the older versions. That sounds reasonable to me... I just filed a bug for Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678342 Any reason to keep this bug open?
(In reply to comment #5) > That sounds reasonable to me... I just filed a bug for Debian: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678342 > > Any reason to keep this bug open? No, let's mark this as resolved.