[Fedora-packaging] Lua

[Hans de Goede]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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.
> 

I've just "given away" a whole bunch of packages to other to lighten my load a 
bit including lua, lua is now in the capable hands of Tim Niemueller (timn), 
I'm sure he will welcome co-maintainers, so if you want to comaintain lua you 
should ask him.

Regards,

Hans

p.s.

I don't see rpm requiring lua in any way, perhaps it would be better for rpm to 
be build against the system version of lua instead of using its own private copy?