[Shotwell] building Shotwell against vala 0.12 : good idea ?

[Lucas B. Cohen]

On 2012.04.07 15:39, Adam Dingle wrote:

> The bug is not normally present in Shotwell 0.11, which supports
> building with versions of Vala up to 0.13.0 only, and includes this line
> in its Makefile.
As a quick fix, I'm considering building a custom Shotwell 0.11.6
package with the Debian packaging tools. It would have to be built
against vala 0.12 however, as Debian has not packaged valac 0.13. Does
that feel like a sound idea ? Has it been tested before ? I know nothing
at all about vala.