Bug#996746: Outdated lua dependency

[Marko Lindqvist]

Package: freeciv
Version: 2.6.5-1

Noticed on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/freeciv a warning that
freeciv depends on two packages which would need a new maintainer. One
of these is liblua5.2-dev. That should be easy to fix by updating the
dependencies, as freeciv-2.6 uses lua-5.3, not lua-5.2. As you don't
have lua-5.3 in dependencies, it might be that no debian packaged lua
gets used at all, but it instead falls back to compiling it from an
included copy.

On a related note I suspect that the other listed package, gnulib, is
not needed as a dependency either. Freeciv distribution should contain
all the required .m4 files, and I think you use those anyway (newer
serial). I could see the point of using .m4 files from the gnulib
package instead, but as things currently stand the abandoned package
has more outdated versions than freeciv distribution.


 - ML