[gentoo-dev] lua upgrade plan

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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All,

lua has been behind in Gentoo for a while, but I have time now to start
working on fixing that this coming week, so consider this a heads-up
that things are going to start happening with regards to dev-lang/lua
and its dependencies.

Upstream does not support liblua as a shared library, and they do not
support installing multiple versions of lua onto a system. After
conferring with the other lua maintainer, the decision has been made to
remove this custom support from our lua package as well. This has been
talked about many times upstream. They do not want it, and using
liblua as a shared library causes performance issues.

Since  that support never came out of p.mask, I will be removing it this
weekend or Monday at the latest and committing the next version of lua
to ~arch.

Once we get the tree fixed, I will address the lua overlay, preferably
we can address it by migrating things there to the tree.

I will be around most of the time next week, so I will be able to follow
up on issues.

Thanks,

William

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