Re: Removing lua51 (and possibly lua52) after the branch?

[Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner writes:
> Hi!
>

Hello Thomas,

> According to upstream, development on lua 5.1 and 5.2 has stopped[1]
> (the supported versions are 5.3 and 5.4).
>
> The current=last version of lua 5.1 is 5.1.5 from 2012.
>
> The current=last version of lua 5.2 is 5.2.4 from 2015.
>
> I suggest removing lua51 from pkgsrc after the branch.
>
> This affects the following packages:
>
> games/fillets-ng/Makefile:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=      51
> games/stratagus/Makefile:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=       51
> games/stone-soup/Makefile.common:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=       51
> games/openhexagon/Makefile:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=     51
> misc/celestia/options.mk:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=       51
> databases/mysql-workbench/Makefile:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=             51
> mail/mailfront/options.mk:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=      51
> security/libprelude-lua/Makefile:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=       51
> x11/lua-keybinder/Makefile:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=     51
> www/luakit/Makefile:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=    51
>
> If we also remove lua52, the following packages are also affected:
>
> chat/prosody/Makefile:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=  52 51
> net/wireshark/options.mk:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=       52 51
> multimedia/mpv/options.mk:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=      52 51
> devel/lua-BitOp/Makefile:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=       52 51
> mail/OSBF-lua/Makefile:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED= 52
> wm/notion/Makefile:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=     52 51
> textproc/lua-slnunicode/Makefile:LUA_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=       52
>
> Comments?
> [...]

At least multimedia/mpv ATM only supports lua51 and lua52 so I'm
against removing lua52 (and in general if any such packages are still
maintained or used, as it is the case for luakit and probably others of
the lua51 users that I'm less familiar).