Re: lua40 and Debian

["Eduardo Ochs" <eduardoochs@...>]

On Feb 18, 2008 8:04 PM, Enrico Tassi <gareuselesinge@libero.it> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:41:00PM -0500, John Belmonte wrote:
> > The Lua library is unique in terms of how stable each release is, how
> > apps can embed it and become bound to a certain version indefinitely,
> > and how there are significant incompatibilites between even point
> > versions.   I tried to explain this in the Debian README.  Distro
>
> Yes, I remember we had to fight not to remove lua 4.0 when we
> introduced lua 5.1
>
> > managers want to fit everything into a box-- Lua's odd shape might
> > have them pulling out their chainsaws.
>
> They asked kindly on #debian-qa, and I forwarded that request here.
>
> So far, nobody seems interested in the Debian package for lua 4.0, thus a
> removal seems reasonable to me.

It should be trivial to create binary lua40 packages from older debian
sources packages in repositories... for example:

  # http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lua40/
  # http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lua40/lua40_4.0-13.dsc
  # http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lua40/lua40_4.0-13.diff.gz
  # http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lua40/lua40_4.0.orig.tar.gz

  rm -Rv ~/usrc/lua40/
  mkdir  ~/usrc/lua40/
  cd $S/http/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lua40/
  cp -v lua40_4.0* ~/usrc/lua40/
  cd     ~/usrc/lua40/
  dpkg-source -sn -x lua40_4.0-13.dsc
  cd     ~/usrc/lua40/lua40-4.0/
  dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b -rfakeroot    2>&1 | tee odb

  cd ~/usrc/lua40/
  sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Cheers,
  Eduardo Ochs
  http://angg.twu.net/
  eduardoochs@gmail.com