[pkg-lua-devel] Bug#1065204: liblua5.4-0: "lua" command missing from terminal

[Michael Klymyshyn]

Package: liblua5.4-0
Version: 5.4.4-3
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: tricerasmash at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

My assumption is that installing the Lua package should enable the user to run
lua files by entering "lua <filename>" in the terminal.

After installation, trying to run a lua file will return "bash: lua: command
not found".
On other package managers, installing lua will make this command work, so i
assume this missing command is a bug.

I did manage to get lua's full functionality by building it from source
instead. It would be great for new users like me if the lua package worked from
the start.

and yes, i checked that it wasn't yet fixed by running debian unstable on a VM.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages liblua5.4-0 depends on:
ii  libc6       2.36-9+deb12u4
ii  libstdc++6  12.2.0-14

liblua5.4-0 recommends no packages.

liblua5.4-0 suggests no packages.

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