tags 650230 +patch thanks
With valac-0.14 the package build successfully. So it's probably just a matter of bumping the build dependency.
Unfortunately it's not quite that simple because neither valac-0.10 or valac-0.12 seems to work and both seem to have a higher alternatives priority than valac-0.14.
So simply build-depending on valac-0.14 is not enough to ensure that it is used. Either the build system needs to be modified to explicitly use 0.14 or build-conflicts need to be declared. The attatched path does the latter.
--- libdbusmenu-0.4.3/debian/control 2012-01-14 02:58:48.000000000 +0000 +++ libdbusmenu-0.4.3.new/debian/control 2012-01-14 02:53:42.000000000 +0000 @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ # gir1.2-gtk-3.0, libx11-dev (>= 1.3), dh-autoreconf, - valac-0.10 + valac-0.14 +Build-Conflicts: valac-0.10, valac-0.12 Standards-Version: 3.9.2 Homepage: https://launchpad.net/dbusmenu Vcs-Bzr: http://bzr.debian.org/bzr/pkg-ayatana/libdbusmenu/debian