Bug#604846: vte: Update to 0.27.2

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Hi,

On 24/11/10 19:24, Michael Terry wrote:
> In Ubuntu, I'm considering applying the attached patch to update to 0.27.2.
>
> This does several things:
>   * Builds a gtk3 version of vte (libvte-2.90-9)

Ugh. I wonder why upstream is using that name and not libvte3.so.N or whatever. 
It sounds like they will change when they release an stable version, which 
doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Can you check this with upstream?

>   * Adds gir packages for both libraries
>   * Moves executable to new libvte-bin package

That's not really needed. The executables are in libexecdir, so just build the 
gtk+3 version with a different libexecdir, i.e. from debian/rules:

DEB_CONFIGURE_LIBEXECDIR := \$${prefix}/lib/$(libvteN)

You'll need one for the gtk+2 version and a different one for the gtk+3 one.


>   * Specifies version of python when building/installing, as we ran into
>     an issue where configure could get rerun during those steps and might
>     use wrong version of python.
>
> I'm very interested in feedback on the general packaging splits I've done.
> In particular, I'd like to get an OK on the package names so I don't introduce
> a delta with Debian in that regard.

Undo the libvte-bin change as I mentioned, and check with upstream what are 
their plans with the SONAME, so we don't need to change this again in a couple 
of months.

For the gtk+3 debian/rules changes, it could be interesting to investigate if we 
can use the CDBS flavours support.

Cheers,
Emilio