Package: awesome Version: 4.2-2 Severity: minor After upgrading to awesome 4.2-2, my rc.lua failed to load due to the use of module() in some supporting config files. I gather that this was the "right" way to do modules in lua 5.0, and was deprecated over the course of 5.1 and 5.2, and is now completely gone in 5.3. I was able to fix it by updating my config files to the "new" way.
It might be worth dropping a note in NEWS.Debian to point people in the right direction. I don't know how common it is to have config so elaborate that it requires sub-modules, but the lua format sort of encourages it. :) I used http://lua-users.org/wiki/ModulesTutorial to figure out how to convert, but I'm not clueful enough to know whether there are better resources. The "short" answer is to swap out: module("foo") function bar ... for: local foo = {} function foo.bar ... return foo -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages awesome depends on: ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.11.22-1 ii gir1.2-freedesktop 1.54.1-1 ii gir1.2-pango-1.0 1.40.12-1 ii libc6 2.24-17 ii libcairo2 1.15.8-2 ii libdbus-1-3 1.11.22-1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.11-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.54.2-1 ii liblua5.3-0 5.3.3-1 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4+b2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxcb-cursor0 0.1.1-4 ii libxcb-icccm4 0.4.1-1+b1 ii libxcb-keysyms1 0.4.0-1+b2 ii libxcb-randr0 1.12-1 ii libxcb-render0 1.12-1 ii libxcb-shape0 1.12-1 ii libxcb-util0 0.3.8-3+b2 ii libxcb-xinerama0 1.12-1 ii libxcb-xkb1 1.12-1 ii libxcb-xrm0 1.0-3 ii libxcb-xtest0 1.12-1 ii libxcb1 1.12-1 ii libxdg-basedir1 1.2.0-1 ii libxkbcommon-x11-0 0.7.1-2 ii libxkbcommon0 0.7.1-2 ii lua-lgi 0.9.1-1.2 ii menu 2.1.47+b1 Versions of packages awesome recommends: pn feh <none> pn rlwrap <none> ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+7+b1 Versions of packages awesome suggests: pn awesome-doc <none> -- no debconf information
