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

[James McCoy]

On Feb 22, 2016 2:18 AM, "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" <
glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Control: reopen -1
>
> On 02/22/2016 05:23 AM, James McCoy wrote:
> > After talking with them, I'm going to close this.  Neovim is likely
> > to become even more reliant on luajit in the future, so
> > conditionally depending on it isn't really an option.
>
> No, I'm sorry. This isn't the correct way to handle this. You either
> update the Architecture list in debian/control or you make neovim
> use LuaC when it cannot use LuaJIT.

LuaC didn't provide FFI, as I understand it, which is why LuaJIT is being
used.

> I will file a bug report upstream and reopen this because closing
> the bug report without doing anything and leaving neovim
> "BD-Uninstallable" is not a proper fix at all.

This is entirely appropriate. As LuaJIT gains support for more
architectures, neovim will automatically get built.

Cheers,
James
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