Re: lua & jessie

[Enrico Tassi <gareuselesinge@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 09:00:49PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> What should we do about lua? Can we not ship 3 versions of it again? Ideally we
> would remove lua50 and lua5.1 and switch everything to lua5.2. Do you think
> that's feasible?

Lua 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2 are 3 different languages.  A Lua 5.1 program does
not necessarily run on 5.2, ditto for 5.0.

I understand that 5.1 and 5.2 are close verion numbers, and that you
may expect incompatible languages to be called 5.0 and 6.0 instead,
but this is how it is.

Should we drop perl 5 and ship only perl 6?  No way.
Here the situation is exactly the same.

If there is a max number of packages we can release, please ask me to
drop a package with a low popcon, not the interpreter of a language.
Our users may have scripts that require Lua 5.0, even if no package
depends on it.  Also, the burdain of maintaining Lua 5.0 on my side is
zero (and on yours too I guess).  Not to talk about its size. 

I'm completely against this request.

Best,
-- 
Enrico Tassi