Hi, I don't know if this is the right place to ask, so please give me a hint where to do so if it is not.
I've recently taken over the packaging for the gnome-globalmenu team, at least until the former packager will have some more spare time again. The problem is the following: When building from svn, the package requires vala in either version 0.5.6 or 0.6.x to create a dist-tarball and/or binaries (none of the mentioned packages is officially available in one of the released ubuntu versions, jaunty includes broken 0.5.7 and vala team has already started packaging 0.7.0 which will fail, too). But once created a dist-tarball, the package will compile without vala at all. The configure script is still checking for vala, but it could be patched to stop doing so (this would cause that there won't be any dependency on valac at build-time, which should be a good thing for the build-machines, too). Because gnome-globalmenu-packaging should be in a state that would possibly allow to include it in a release jaunty+1, my question is how to deal with it. Would it be conform to the policies when building source from svn will not be possible with ubuntu provided tools? Would it be against the packaging-policies to patch the configure script to get rid of valac-dependency? If so, would a comment in debian/Readme.source be enough to clarify the problem to users who want to build svn source? Thanks in advance for Your help, regards, Gert -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss