On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Sébastien Luttringer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Stéphane Gaudreault > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Le 2012-09-13 16:19, Sébastien Luttringer a écrit : >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Version 5.2 of lua is out since December 2011 [1] and last update >>> since June 2012. >>> >>> I suggest[2] to update our current lua package to 5.2.1 and introduce >>> a new package lua51. >>> As we need to rebuild and update dependencies of some packages, we can >>> benefits to adopt a clean naming (like for python) for lua libraries >>> like >>> - lua-lfs for lua 5.2 version, where "lfs" is the name in the lua require. >>> - lua51-lfs for 5.1 version. >>> for current package lua-filesystem. >>> >>> Example: >>> pkgbase=luafilsystem >>> pkgname=(lua-lfs lua-lfs51) >>> >>> The goal is to drop lua51* package once all package will only needs lua >>> 5.2. >>> >>> I currently have a lua (v5.2.1) and lua51 (v5.1.5) packages on my >>> computer which works correctly. >>> >>> The following packages are out of my hands: >>> seblu@brynhild ~ $ for i in extra testing; do sogrep $i lua.so; done >>> celestia >>> gnuplot >>> graphviz >>> gvim >>> lighttpd >>> nmap >>> pdns-recursor >>> rrdtool >>> vlc >>> weechat >>> wireshark-cli >>> >>> seblu@brynhild ~ $ for i in community community-testing ; do sogrep $i >>> lua.so; done >>> awesome >>> btanks >>> cegui >>> edje-svn >>> electricsheep >>> elinks >>> fillets-ng >>> geany-plugins >>> grafx2 >>> hedgewars >>> highlight >>> highlight-gui >>> libquvi >>> luabind >>> lua-zlib >>> megaglest >>> notion >>> stone-soup >>> task >>> widelands >>> xmoto >>> widelands >>> >>> As there is not so many packages to update in community, I can do it >>> myself. I need some helps for those in extra/core. >>> >>> Comments? Objections? >>> >>> [1] http://www.lua.org/versions.html#5.2 >>> [2] I'm not a lua expert, I use it only with awesome, so please tell >>> me if you see something bad. >>> >> Before looking at the package names, I would like to see the list of >> packages that are not compatible (no patch available). For packages in this >> list, it could be interesting to look if upstream devs are still active and >> if they have plans to move to 5.2. If not, we could simply drop them or >> rebuild them without lua support when possible. > > I started to build a list for lua library which are compatible to lua5.2: > - luaposix > - luabitop > - lua-zlib > - luaexpat > - luajit > - luasql (luasql-mysql) > > Otherwise: > - luabind (no yet) > - lualogging (no yet) > - luakit (no yet) > - luafilesystem [1] > - luasocket [2] > - luasec (no yet) > - luarocks (in progress [3]) > > It's a bit longer for all packages and I will need help from maintainer. > > Do you think using the name of the library in filesystem instead of > project name is a good idea? e.g: lua-lfs instead of lua-filesystem. > > [1] > https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem/commit/f634765b26c52d03aceed88c2130130ab43f6fa9 > [2] > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12040601/is-there-a-lua-socket-library-compatibile-with-lua-5-2-1 > [3] > https://github.com/keplerproject/luarocks/commit/37aded056fae788088855b36281b1d23b0131fdb
Here is an updated list of packages which need to be bumped. Built from 3 search. - expac -S %N lua|tr " " "\n"|grep -v ^$ - pkgfile -isd /usr/lib/lua/|cut -f 2 -d / - for i in core extra testing community community-testing ; do sogrep $i lua.so; done http://pastebin.com/3siLkB34 It's about 50 packages. -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer www.seblu.net
