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Bug 190606 - dev-lang/lua: request for SLOTting
Summary: dev-lang/lua: request for SLOTting
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: Normal enhancement
Assignee: Matti Bickel (RETIRED)
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Keywords:
: 192551 202025 414571 422493 461222 486920 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 434216
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Reported: 2007-08-29 06:40 UTC by Michal Suchanek
Modified: 2013-10-04 13:15 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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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. ***