On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 08:06:34 +0200, Enrico Tassi wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:37:06PM -0400, John Belmonte wrote: > > 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.
Certainly, I know for example ResidualVM (a fork of ScummVM) which uses an embedded and modified Lua 3.1 because that's what the original Grim Fandango scripts need. The question I guess is to what extent is the archive supposed to carry how many old versions, and when developers are supposed to migrate (if it's feasible at all). I guess I could have formulated that explicitly in the report, because I don't know your policies about switching the archive to new versions and such, or when you usually remove old versions when the archive does not need them anymore. Or after how many new upstream releases (seeing packages are now starting to switch to Lua 5.2). > Moreover the popcon is 18928, a bit high for a package to be removed. While this is significant, notice that the amount of used packages is fairly low, my guess is that because the packages do not get switched to newer Lua versions people might end up with those w/o noticing. In any case, this was more of a heads up, that once the two other filed bugs are fixed there will be no more users in the archive, if you feel it's worth keeping Lua 5.0 in the archive that's obviously perfectly fine too, and I'd say to just close this report then. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
