Re: Packaging guidelines for packaging vala bindings

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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 02:16:19PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 01/17/2012 02:08 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Ralf Corsepius<rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >>I disagree. Like other "exotic languages", anything related to it should
> >>remain "strictly optional".
> >Unlike other bindings which are binaries and link or require external
> >packages, vapi files are small plain text file that can be used to
> >read an API more easily than their C or gobject introspection gir
> >counterpars.
> >
> Irrelevant ... these files are only usable as with a vala toolchain
> and thus are just "diskspace pollution" to users who have no use for
> vala.

I agree with Ralf.  Vala files are meaningless except for people who
care about vala, so they should go in a subpackage.

More to the point, presumably if the vala files were included in
*-devel, they'd also cause an explicit or implicit dependency on
vala-devel, which would mean the vala toolchain being pulled in for
many packages, and that's totally unacceptable.

Rich.

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