Lua 5.1 packaging -- how to participate?

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

With the emergence of Lua 5.1 I'd like to bring the packaging issue  
back on table.

In my opinion, the Lua Binaries project would be the best forum to  
provide "official" packages to leading distributions, as well.  
Personally, I am most worried/interested about Debian, and Fink  
packaging.

Is this already being taken care of appropriately (both packaging  
itself, and pushing those packages to main repositories) or is there  
something I could help with?

Some technical issues, I would rather have the binary program name be  
'lua51', and possibly a link from 'lua' to the most recent (or: any)  
version currently installed. With Lua, it is extremely important  
multiple versions can peacefully co-exist (think application packages  
dependent on some particular version).

-ak