On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > There's currently only two packages Build-Depending on lua50, elinks > and fillets-ng, for which I've filed bugs with patches to switch to > Lua 5.1. I'll mark them as blocking this one.
It's not necessarily in the software developer's control to upgrade the Lua version. The Lua library is used to extend and configure applications, and the language itself is incompatible between major versions. I don't know anything about the two packages you mentioned, but for example one could have thousands of users who wrote their own scripts for the application, and those scripts might break if Lua is upgraded. This is explained under "Need to maintain old Lua releases" in README.Debian of the Lua packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
