Bug 190606

Summary:	dev-lang/lua: request for SLOTting
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michal Suchanek <hramrach>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Matti Bickel (RETIRED) <mabi>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	acheron, anton.bugs, dschridde+gentoobugs, gb_about_gnu, rafaelmartins, scratch, svenne
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	434216

Description Michal Suchanek 2007-08-29 06:40:25 UTC

lua 5.0.x and 5.1.x are incompatible.

Software that builds and runs with one usually does not work with the other. There are API changes.

The tree still contains some stuff that only works with old lua.

Things I am aware of are stepmania and ion2.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-29 06:49:43 UTC

Nope; get broken apps fixed upstream. We've already slotted it and quickly undone it. More PITA that it's worth.

Comment 2 Michal Suchanek 2007-08-29 07:12:45 UTC

Broken? What's broken about an application using a library?

On normal (binary package) system these can easily coexist.

If I build the application manually and supply the right lua version it works flawlessly.

what is broken is gentoo packaging system that cannot cope with two versions of a library.

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-29 10:36:32 UTC

We are not going to do it, sorry. Also stated in the ChangeLog.

Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-14 20:44:26 UTC

*** Bug 192551 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-12-12 13:11:29 UTC

*** Bug 202025 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-20 03:19:04 UTC

*** Bug 414571 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-20 03:19:09 UTC

*** Bug 422493 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-20 03:23:57 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> *** Bug 414571 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to comment #7)
> *** Bug 422493 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Those bugs are about SLOTting >=dev-lang/lua-5.2.0 and if this is seriously considered then this bug should block bug 407091.

Anyway, I'm against SLOTting dev-lang/lua. The packages need to be fixed like normal instead. I realize it will take a while, but that's just how it is.

Comment 9 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-03-10 18:09:19 UTC

*** Bug 461222 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-10-04 13:15:37 UTC

*** Bug 486920 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***