(CCing the package uploaders.)

Xiyue Deng <[email protected]> writes:

> Xiyue Deng <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:08:17 +0100 =?UTF-8?Q?Aniol_Mart=C3=AD?= 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>> 
>>> i am the maintainer of Aegisub. Version 3.4.0 was recently released but 
>>> it requires LuaJIT with Lua 5.2 compat. Are there any plans about 
>>> supporting it?
>>> 
>>> We are currently discussing it in 
>>> https://github.com/TypesettingTools/Aegisub/issues/239. One option that 
>>> I'm considering is bundling LuaJIT with Aegisub, but the Debian Policy 
>>> encourages not doing that. Do you know if there are any other packages 
>>> in a similar situation?
>>> 
>>> Aniol
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>
>> As David mentioned in [1], this should be as simple as adding 
>> "-DLUAJIT_ENABLE_LUA52COMPAT" to CFLAGS and it should be ABI/API 
>> compatible.  Please consider adding this support so that Aegisub and 
>> other packages can use it directly.
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781728#16
>>
>> -- 
>> Xiyue Deng
>
> I have tested adding the flags and the result is promising: aegisub can
> now directly build against libluajit-5.1-dev built with the flags and
> works well.
>
> I have created a MR on Salsa[1] and hope it can be reviewed and merged.
>
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/lua-team/luajit/-/merge_requests/3
>

Friendly ping.  This is a blocking issue for Aegisub and currently
preventing it from migrating to Forky.

Though my previous claim may be wrong that enabling this flag may
probably require a transition.  I would like to help analyze the
situation and move this bug forward.  TIA!

> -- 
> Regards,
> Xiyue Deng

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Regards,
Xiyue Deng

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