Bug#812741: neovim: Please don't build-depend on luajit on unsupported architectures

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Wed Jan 27 02:23:29 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:03:31AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> neovim is currently BD-Uninstallable on a number of architectures which
> are not supported by luajit [1]. I would therefore like to ask to limit
> the list of architectures for which neovim build-depends on libluajit-5.1-dev,
> similar to what haskell-hslua does [2].

Neovim's build system explicitly links against libluajit, so that's not
an option currently.  I'll talk with upstream to figure out if it really
is a required dependency.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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