vala: drop 0.36, 0.44

[amaxine]

Motivation for this change

Both have been EOL for a while.

This necessitated bumping birdfont to a newer version. It seems to build and run fine with either 0.48 and 0.52, but I just moved it to the closest LTS release. Perhaps we don't need to pin vala versions at all here?

Dropping 0.46 seems a bit more annoying, so I'll try doing that later in a separate PR.

Things done

• Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS linux)
• Built on platform(s)
  • NixOS
  • macOS
  • other Linux distributions
• Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
• Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
• Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 21.11 Release Notes
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

[jtojnar]

Looks like birdfont has been pinned in #70344. But it was an older version then so perhaps pinning is indeed not necessary these days. It would definitely be better to track latest Vala if it builds with it.

[amaxine]

I've unpinned vala for birdfont then, at least for 0.52 it builds fine.

[SuperSandro2000]

Do we want aliases for those?

[amaxine]

We don't do that when dropping old golang versions. I don't have any strong opinions either way here. It's probably fine to not do it, but also probably better practice to actually add them for versioned packages.

[r-rmcgibbo]

Result of nixpkgs-review pr 127243 at c352a08 run on x86_64-linux 1

1 package built successfully:

• birdfont

3 suggestions:

• warning: missing-phase-hooks

  buildPhase should probably contain runHook preBuild and runHook postBuild.

  Near pkgs/tools/misc/birdfont/default.nix:24:3:

     |
  24 |   buildPhase = "./build.py";
     |   ^
  

• warning: unclear-gpl

  gpl3 is a deprecated license, please check if project uses gpl3Plus or gpl3Only and change meta.license accordingly.

  Near pkgs/tools/misc/birdfont/default.nix:31:5:

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  31 |     license = licenses.gpl3;
     |     ^
  

• warning: missing-phase-hooks

  installPhase should probably contain runHook preInstall and runHook postInstall.

  Near pkgs/tools/misc/birdfont/default.nix:26:3:

     |
  26 |   installPhase = "./install.py";
     |   ^