Re: luajit2 vs luajit - cleanup

[Mo Zhou <lumin@debian.org>]

My memory on s390x was outdated and only applies to very old versions
https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=luajit&arch=s390x

But that does not change my opinion on upstream.


On 2/19/24 12:51, Mo Zhou wrote:
> luajit2 supports s390x, while the original upstream is hard to 
> collaborate with.
>
> I personally do not think switching to a more friendly upstream, and 
> adding
> s390x support that will never be merged into the original upstream, 
> are creating
> a mess.
>
> My personal opinion is to gradually deprecate src:luajit and switch to 
> src:luajit2,
> and thus the current status of supporting both for a smoother migration.
>
> But, if the other maintainers and debian users are willing to continue 
> work with
> the non-collaborative original upstream, please purge src:luajit2 and 
> remove
> me from the co-maintainers.
>
> I'm not willing to work with original upstream. That's all.
>
> On 2/19/24 03:13, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > Hi Mo,
> >
> > since you package the luajit 2.1 for the second time as luajit2,
> > could you also cleanup the mess you've created as there are
> > now two packages providing luajit 2.1? You are listed as
> > co-maintainer in the both packages, so the reason to package
> > luajit2 is elusive to me. Since there are fewer dependencies
> > for luajit2, it might be easier to just update luajit and drop
> > luajit2.
> >
> > Ccing release and security teams - just FYI, not action needed,
> > but double packaging of the same library has both release
> > and security implications (more work).
> >
> > ### luajit
> >
> > Checking reverse dependencies...
> > # Broken Depends:
> > lua-ljsyscall: lua-ljsyscall
> >
> > # Broken Build-Depends:
> > bpfcc: libluajit-5.1-dev
> >         luajit
> > cantor: libluajit-5.1-dev
> > dnsjit: libluajit-5.1-dev
> >          luajit
> > ettercap: libluajit-5.1-dev
> > knot-resolver: libluajit-5.1-dev
> >                 luajit
> > lua-ljsyscall: luajit
> > luakit: libluajit-5.1-dev
> >          luajit
> > nageru: libluajit-5.1-dev
> > neovim: luajit
> > obs-studio: libluajit-5.1-dev
> > openmw: libluajit-5.1-dev
> > satdump: libluajit-5.1-dev
> > snort: libluajit-5.1-dev
> > suricata: libluajit-5.1-dev
> > uftrace: libluajit-5.1-dev
> > uwsgi-plugin-luajit: libluajit-5.1-dev
> > vcmi/contrib: libluajit-5.1-dev
> > wrk: libluajit-5.1-dev
> >       luajit
> >
> > Dependency problem found.
> >
> > ### luajit2
> >
> > Checking reverse dependencies...
> > # Broken Depends:
> > lua-resty-core: lua-resty-core
> > lua-resty-lrucache: lua-resty-lrucache
> > luajit: libluajit-5.1-2 [s390x]
> >          libluajit-5.1-dev [s390x]
> >          luajit [s390x]
> >
> > # Broken Build-Depends:
> > libnginx-mod-http-lua: libluajit2-5.1-dev
> > love: libluajit2-5.1-dev
> > sysbench: libluajit2-5.1-dev
> >
> > Dependency problem found.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Ondřej Surý (He/Him)
> > ondrej@sury.org