Bug 733768

Summary:	dev-libs/appstream does not have vala support in main tree
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dion Moult <dion>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo.org, gnome, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	733834

Description Dion Moult 2020-07-24 13:17:01 UTC

Would it be possible to add vala support to appstream in the main tree? The appstream ebuild in the elementary overlay has this feature, and it looks straightforward:

https://data.gpo.zugaina.org/elementary/dev-libs/appstream/appstream-0.12.11.ebuild

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge appstream
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3.
Actual Results:  
No vala

Expected Results:  
A useflag to enable vala

I tried modifying the ebuild to match the elementary overlay version, but I noticed that Gentoo installs valac/vapigen with a suffix of the version, so the build fails with saying "can't find vapigen", but perhaps someone with more experience in how Gentoo deals with Vala can sort this out :)

Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2020-07-25 15:05:42 UTC

Nothing in tree requires requires vala support from dev-libs/appstream; plasma-workspace is the only consumer.

Comment 2 Dion Moult 2020-07-26 00:48:03 UTC

Oh - is the requirement that something in the tree needs it for this to be added? I was working on #733834 and that's why I ran into this. Is that enough justification?

Comment 3 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2020-07-26 12:17:39 UTC

(In reply to Dion Moult from comment #2)
> Oh - is the requirement that something in the tree needs it for this to be
> added? I was working on #733834 and that's why I ran into this. Is that
> enough justification?
It means that I accept patches from the one who needs this in appstream, and it can be added at the same time that this new package would be entering the repository, but I personally won't put energy into it - it's "gnome stuff".

You can look at dev-libs/libical for an example of vala support. I can't tell if it is a typical case though.

Comment 4 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2021-10-02 10:52:58 UTC

ping - would you like to add vala support to the ebuild via a PR?

Comment 5 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2021-11-29 18:05:40 UTC

gnome proj, are you interested at all, seeing gnome-extra/gnome-software is a revdep?

Comment 6 Joost Ruis 2022-05-17 21:44:48 UTC

Hey all. I was looking in pantheon-base/applications-menu from the elementary overlay. This requires vala support to be enabled on dev-libs/appstream too.

I'm uncertain about the quality of the ebuilds on that overlay, but I thought I would just mentions it on this bug.

Comment 7 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2024-03-25 14:31:17 UTC

*** Bug 927494 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***