From: astian@memeware.net   
      
   Package: lua-lgi   
   Version: 0.9.2-7   
   Severity: normal   
      
   Dear Maintainer,   
      
   Support for Lua 5.2 was recently removed in version 0.9.2-5, without any   
   explanation for why.   
      
   Debian packages mpv which uses the Lua 5.2 interpreter for plugins.  As   
   I'm sure you know, Lua is so bare-bones that depending on external   
   libraries is unavoidable.  lgi is extremely useful here.  The removal of   
   the 5.2 bindings broke several of my mpv scripts.   
      
   Debian also packages many other programs which use Lua 5.1 or 5.3+, some   
   even directly depend on lua-lgi.  For example, I also need lgi 5.3 for   
   awesome wm.   
      
   If there's a problem with the 5.2 bindings and they cannot be restored,   
   mpv should be built with a different lua interpreter.  AFAIK, though,   
   upstream mpv has explicitly stated that they have no intention of moving   
   to lua >= 5.3 (apparently due to imperfect backward compatibility).   
   However, skimming the meson file in the mpv source tree, it seems that   
   it should be possible to build mpv with lua 5.1 (and at least up to ~1-2   
   years ago luajit was also an option, a better one for speed).   
      
   So please restore the 5.2 bindings or advise the mpv DM to rebuild with   
   5.1, and in any case do explain why you are removing them.   
      
   Thanks.   
      
   -- System Information:   
   Debian Release: forky/sid   
     APT prefers stable-security   
     APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'),   
   (500, 'stable')   
   Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)   
      
   Kernel: Linux 6.12.69+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)   
   Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),    
   ANGUAGE=en_GB:en   
   Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash   
   Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)   
   LSM: AppArmor: enabled   
      
   Versions of packages lua-lgi depends on:   
   ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0        2.87.2-3   
   ii  libc6                  2.42-12   
   ii  libffi8                3.5.2-3+b1   
   ii  libgirepository-1.0-1  1.86.0-6   
   ii  libglib2.0-0t64        2.87.2-3   
      
   lua-lgi recommends no packages.   
      
   lua-lgi suggests no packages.   
      
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