Re: Lua 5.1 has a serious issue

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 07:24 -0500, John Belmonte wrote:
> > I appreciate that the docs may need tweaking as a result of this, but I
> > seriously recommend it be done. Otherwise I can see many distributions
> > applying such a patch as a "bugfix" which will make varying and
> > effectively incompatible versions of Lua occupy our distributions.
> Any packager that would apply a modification like that is being
> irresponsible.  I don't think your last point should be considered when
> deciding this issue.

That doesn't stop me seeing gentoo and others doing it.

D.

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