On 2023-08-27 13:20:52 +0200, Bastian Germann wrote: > Source: lua5.2 > Severity: wishlist > Control: block -1 by 1050599 1050598 1050597 1050596 1050540 1050543 1050624 > 1050625 1050626 1050627 > Control: block -1 by 1050628 1050629 1050630 1050631 1050632 1050633 1050634 > 1050635 1050636 1050637 > > The last lua5.2 release was on 07 Mar 2015. As upstream will not release any > other version, we should get lua5.2 out of Debian as the least-used lua > version that is still in the archive. I have filed "low-hanging fruit" bugs > for the packages that support other lua versions as well and have blocked > this issue on them. > > The packages that need more investigation are: > dnsmasq > kyua > lutok > lcm > qosmic > tolua > uwsgi > > The rest of the reverse dependencies are depending on "lua5.2 | lua5.x" (OR > depends), so they should not be a problem.
This is incorrect. Any package depending on lua5.2 as first alternative is instantly RC-buggy after the removal of lua5.2 due to Debian policy 2.2.1 which requires that the first alternative always must be satisfiable with packages from main. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
