[pkg-lua-devel] Bug#922876: lua5.3: Please provide a 'lua' metapackage package that depends on the latest version

[Celelibi]

Control: reopen -1
Control: thx

Thanks for the attention you gave to this report.

> There is a virtual lua package that does the trick.

Unfortunately, no. It doesn't do the trick. Virtual packages aren't
installable.


# apt install lua
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package lua is a virtual package provided by:
  lua50 5.0.3-8.1
  lua5.4 5.4.3-1
  lua5.3 5.3.3-1.1+b1
  lua5.2 5.2.4-1.1+b3
  lua5.1 5.1.5-8.1+b3
You should explicitly select one to install.

E: Package 'lua' has no installation candidate



See packages like python3 or gcc for examples of what I mean.
They have dependencies to (for instance) python3.9 and gcc-10.

Best regards,
Celelibi