[Bug 1863609] Re: [SRU] Update to vala 0.40.19 in bionic

[Mathew Hodson]

** Changed in: vala (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Tags added: upgrade-software-version

** Also affects: vala (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: vala (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: vala (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
   [SRU] Update to vala 0.40.19 in bionic

Status in vala package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in vala source package in Bionic:
  New

Bug description:
  The 0.40.x series is maintained as LTS release and will receive
  further bug fix releases in the future. See
  https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala

  Previous 0.40.17 SRU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1803136

  Falls under the standing GNOME SRU execption
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#GNOME

  Upstream changes since 0.40.17:

  Vala 0.40.19
  ============
   * Various improvements and bug fixes:
     - codegen:
      + Fix precondition in creation method of structs
      + Don't set implemenation of interface property to its own [#891]
      + Use result value of assignment rather than its computation [#895]
      + Cast instance parameter in member-initializer for base-properties [#899]
      + Skip StructRegisterFunction for boolean/integer/floating types [#901]
      + Handle different type-symbols in visit_base_access() [#901]
     - vala:
      + VoidType is actually compatible with itself [#878]
      + Keep formal_target_type on transform of method-call/object-creation [#835]
      + Add a basic parameter check for [Print] methods
      + Don't ignore inner errors in Block and acknowledge them further
      + Don't report further errors if MemberInitializer.check() failed
      + Improve error message for unsupported inner types and declarations
      + Don't allow "va_list" as return-type or type of fields [#884]
      + Check before accessing "name" of parent_symbol which might be null
      + Allow to override base interface properties explicitly
      + Fix base-access check for compact classes
      + Improve detection of recursive struct declarations [#902]
      + Inline allocated arrays require length or initializer [#903]
      + Don't ignore errors in Parameter and acknowledge them further
    - parser: Implicit "main" method of main-block is public and static
    - genie: Fix parser's inner state when a struct is declared after a class
    - girparser: Apply explicitly given ctype metadata attributes on callables
    - testrunner: Invalid tests and therefore expected failures must return 1

   * Bindings:
    - glib-2.0: Add to_string() for GLib.PollFd and GLib.Pid
    - gtk+-3.0: Update to 3.24.13+3822ac74

  Vala 0.40.18
  ============
   * Various improvements and bug fixes:
    - codegen:
      + Use G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_INTERFACE to get vtable for base-access
      + Fix setting of generic-type properties for gobject chain up [#654702]
      + Make type-parameter properties readable [#190]
      + Fix vfunc signature of delegate-typed property in interface
      + Fix support of dynamic DBus methods
    - vala:
      + Warn when passing arrays to typeof(), except for "string[]" [#868]
      + Don't falsely resolve binary-expression to bool [#869]
      + Do not allow += for arrays with fixed length
      + Array with fixed length don't require explicit instantiation [#720]
      + Infer array length of inline allocated arrays for fields [#644046]
      + Do not allow to .resize() on arrays with fixed length
      + Do not allow to change .length of arrays with fixed length
      + Improve error message for arrays as type arguments
      + Improve error reporting for invalid interface prerequisites [#437]
      + Write value of constants/enums in fast-vapi if constant only [#461]
      + Don't require constant initializer in fast-vapi [#461]
      + Restore DestroysInstance behaviour for non-compact classes [#873]
      + Report error for async creation expression without yield
    - parser: `owned` is not allowed on Constants
    - girparser: Detect and replace "-" in parameter names
    - girwriter: Add readable="0"/private="1" attribute to type-specific fields
    - gidl:
      + Calculate size correctly, avoid use-after-free
      + Avoid use of uninitialized "markup" warning
      + Ignore flags like -mfpmath=sse, -msse or -msse2
    - valadoc:
      + libvaladoc: Fix parameter and property ownership declarations
      + Fix ownership declarations of Constants
    - pkg-config:
      + vala: Add missing gmodule-2.0 to Requires.private of pkg-config file
      + libvaladoc: Move gmodule-2.0 to Requires.private of pkg-config file

   * Bindings:
    - glib-2.0: Guard against passing null source to GLib.Memory.copy()
    - gtk+-3.0: Skip _MountOperationHandler* symbols
    - libusb-1.0: Don't depend on glib-2.0
    - libusb-1.0: Remove unused private "malloc" binding
    - linux: Add memfd_create(2)
    - posix: Bind some essential memory allocation functions

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