Packaging guidelines for packaging vala bindings

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:55:10PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > I agree with Ralf.  Vala files are meaningless except for people who
>> > care about vala, so they should go in a subpackage.
>>
>> So is gobject-introspection then. Not everybody care about it, or
>> systemtap, gdb python macros, valgrind..
>
> That's right, and that's why we have -debuginfo subpackages.
>
> [...]
>> > 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.
>>
>> But we don't care having implict&explicit depedency on a browser or python.
>
> Actually many people do care and worry about this a lot.

python in an explicit dependency in Fedora due to yum. But there are
others like perl that I do care about.

Peter