[pkg] New package: wcc

Raphael Hertzog hertzog at debian.org
Wed Jun 21 19:09:01 UTC 2017


On Wed, 21 Jun 2017, phil at reseau-libre.net wrote:
> As lua5.2 deploys /usr/bin/lua(c)5.2 and lua5.3 deploys /usr/bin/lua(c)5.3,
> it's not yet clear for me the way lua5.2 & lua5.3 manage the lua
> alternative. I'll take a look at this and verify this with Jonathan (the
> upstream packager).

Alternatives are manage via "update-alternatives" calls in the maintainer
scripts. If you look a debian/lua5.2.postinst you will see those calls.
But there's nothing similar in lua5.3.

> > missing-dep-for-interpreter on print_G was right since lua5.3 doesn't
> > provide
> > /usr/bin/lua
> 
> I'haven't seen update-alternative references in the lua5.3 debian dir. Yet
> in  https://packages.debian.org/buster/lua5.3 the package is defined in the
> same way as lua5.2 :-/ There is something i still don't understand about
> it...

packages.debian.org doesn't show you anything about the maintainer
scripts.

Cheers,
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