[Fedora-packaging] Lua

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Hans de Goede wrote:

> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 13:29 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>> I see a few Lua packages have appeared in the review queue today.
>>> 
>>> I checked out the specs and they all seem very clean.  There are a few
>>> issues (/usr/lib/lua seems to be unowned in rawhide, although
>>> /usr/lib/lua/5.1 is owned by the lua package), the luasql packages
>>> leave /usr/lib/lua/5.1/luasql unowned, etc.) but these seem to be
>>> minor packaging issues.
>>> 
>>> So, we need to decide whether we want to just go ahead with these
>>> packages, or whether we want to do the "wait for guidelines" game
>>> again.  Is anyone interesting in writing some guidleines?  It seems
>>> like they'd be pretty tiny.  Hans, the main Lua package seems to be
>>> yours; are you interested in putting something together?
>> 
>> I don't see a reason for a hold here. I would love to see Hans (or
>> someone qualified) whip up some guidelines.
>> 
>
> I also don't see a reason for a hold. As for me being the lua maintainer, 
> thats only because it got orphaned and its used in a few games I maintain. My 
> lua knowledge is limited. So lets first see how these new packages go, and if 
> there is a need for lua specific guidelines at all.

Only noticed this now, duh...

I briefly maintained Lua in fedora.us and would be happy to help with it 
if you want. Both rpm and apt-rpm have and use an embedded Lua interpreter 
to varying degrees so I've both interest and some experience in it.

 	- Panu -