[pkg-lua-devel] Bug#1032533: liblua5.4-dev: 0003-extern_C.patch does not make sense, please remove

[Jackson]

Package: liblua5.4-dev
Version: 5.4.4-3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: j.p.bryn at zoho.com

Hi,

This patchfile undermines that Lua can be built as C++ to manage unwinding
exceptions; according to the date, it has been in the Debian Lua repository for
over seven years. For example, future releases of MAME (package: mame) will
break using USE_SYSTEM_LUA_LIB if this fallacy not resolved, since they link
their own copy.

Was the patchfile created to overcome package building errors? If so, those
should have been fixed as their own individual patches.

Sincerely,
Jackson


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.2.2-x64v2-xanmod1 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages liblua5.4-dev depends on:
ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]  2.36-8
ii  liblua5.4-0           5.4.4-3
ii  libreadline-dev       8.2-1.3

Versions of packages liblua5.4-dev recommends:
ii  libtool-bin           2.4.7-5
ii  pkg-config            1.8.1-1
ii  pkgconf [pkg-config]  1.8.1-1

liblua5.4-dev suggests no packages.

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