Bug#922876: lua5.3: Please provide a 'lua' metapackage package that depends on the latest version
Control: reopen -1 Control: thx Thanks for the attention you gave to this report. > There is a virtual lua package that does the trick. Unfortunately, no. It doesn't do the trick. Virtual packages aren't installable. # apt install lua Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Package lua is a virtual package provided by: lua50 5.0.3-8.1 lua5.4 5.4.3-1 lua5.3 5.3.3-1.1+b1 lua5.2 5.2.4-1.1+b3 lua5.1 5.1.5-8.1+b3 You should explicitly select one to install. E: Package 'lua' has no installation candidate See packages like python3 or gcc for examples of what I mean. They have dependencies to (for instance) python3.9 and gcc-10. Best regards, Celelibi
Bug#922876: lua5.3: Please provide a 'lua' metapackage package that depends on the latest version
Package: lua5.3 Version: 5.3.3-1.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Having a "lua" metapackage that installs the latest version of lua would allow to have the latest interpreter automatically updated. This seems to be a pretty common thing to do in Debian with interpreters and compilers. Best regards, Celelibi -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lua5.3 depends on: ii libc6 2.28-7 ii libreadline7 7.0-5 lua5.3 recommends no packages. lua5.3 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
