Bug#604846: vte: Update to 0.27.2

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 30 novembre 2010 à 10:44 -0500, Michael Terry a écrit :
> > 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:
> 
> Well, the only executable is /usr/lib/libvte9/gnome-pty-helper which
> only has the following library dependencies:
> 
>         linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff27b2e000)
>         libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f9faaaa9000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9faa726000)
>         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f9faacd4000)
> 
> So I didn't think there was a point to building two versions as it
> doesn't depend on vte itself.  And thus, I felt like it should live
> apart from the library in bin package.

That would be true if we intended to keep both versions of libvte
forever, but we don’t. Furthermore there is no guarantee the same binary
will fork for both versions.

After all this is the reason why the libexecdir here is versioned.

Cheers,
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