Package: valac Version: 0.34.0-1 Severity: serious Tags: upstream Justification: upstream regression causes FTBFS in other package(s)
Hi, valac no longer supports abstract functions with generics. This construct is used by the freesmartphone.org stack, which is packaged for Debian and FTBFS with valac > 0.34.0-1. This has been reported in Debian Bug #838705. The below standalone testcase, which compiles warning free in vala 0.32, no longer works in vala 0.34 and demonstrates the problem. As far as I can see the regression has been introduced by the following change: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2016-July/msg02876.html --------------------------------------------------------- public abstract class basecl : Object { public abstract void test<T>(T parameter); } public class inheritcl : basecl { public override void test<T>(T parameter) { stdout.printf("Just a test!\n"); } } int main(string[] args) { var obj = new inheritcl(); obj.test<string>("test"); return 0; } --------------------------------------------------------- -- Sebastian
