[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Bug#1050186: Bug#1050186: libnginx-mod-http-lua: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

[Thomas Ward]

Bastian:

As I understand the module, for over a year now the latest Lua module 
from OpenResty requires LuaJIT to actually compile.  See 
https://salsa.debian.org/nginx-team/libnginx-mod-http-lua/-/blob/main/debian/control#L8 
where this is in the build deps.

I have not tested removing the PCRE3 build dependency here, but because 
OpenResty has refused to change the Lua library to be any Lua support 
other than 5.1, it requires LuaJIT in order to provide 'continued 
support' for Lua 5.1 bytecode.

It is my understanding that the pcre2/pcre3 dependency may not be 
needed, but I have not deep dived into the Lua packaging recently.  I'm 
running a test build from the tagged data in Salsa locally to see if it 
builds without the pcre2/pcre3 devel libraries in build-deps.


Thomas


On 8/21/23 12:58, Bastian Germann wrote:
> Thomas, can you please explain why this package still builds when 
> nginx has moved to pcre2? I do not get it.