[Fedora-packaging] Lua

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Fri Apr 4 21:12:21 UTC 2008


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.

Regards,

Hans




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