[Pkg-vala-maintainers] Bug#564088: lua5.1.pc / lua5.1.vapi

[WU Jun]

  Hi,

I am a developer using vala and lua.

Currently, to make a vala/lua program buildable in debian, ugly means 
must be used.

I strongly recommend that debian use 'lua' as pc name, just the same 
with other distos.
Or as Enrico Tassi said, use a symbol link.

Since a pkg has both pc name and pc version and lua official use 'lua' 
as pc name,
I don't think pc name lua5.1 any good. "5.1" should be written in pc 
version.
Debian is making things 'debian-only', really bad.

In case a program requires too old lua to build, it should carry lua 
source of that
version itself, which is the recommended way. In fact, lua is designed 
flexible and hackable
and using a modified version of lua should be common.

If debian insists 'lua5.1' as pc name, debian should also patch vala to let
it support debian's lua5.1 pc name seamlessly.

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