Re: [OE-core] [PATCH V2] lua: upgrade from 5.4.8 to 5.5.0

[Ross Burton <Ross.Burton@arm.com>]

On 24 Feb 2026, at 02:46, Changqing Li via lists.openembedded.org <changqing.li=windriver.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> -LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://doc/readme.html;beginline=305;endline=326;md5=0e573c143cb6491b41cf02cfbcb8c267"
> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://doc/readme.html;beginline=299;endline=320;md5=0e573c143cb6491b41cf02cfbcb8c267"

You need a License-Update: line in the commit message explaining why this changed.

> -PACKAGECONFIG ??= "readline"
> -PACKAGECONFIG[readline] = ",,readline"
> +DEPENDS = "readline"

Why is this no longer conditional?  Readline is GPLv3 so there are people who want to disable this everywhere.

> do_install () {
> @@ -40,13 +39,13 @@ do_install () {
>         'INSTALL_MAN=${D}${mandir}/man1' \
>         'INSTALL_SHARE=${D}${datadir}/lua' \
>         'INSTALL_LIB=${D}${libdir}' \
> -        'INSTALL_CMOD=${D}${libdir}/lua/5.4' \
> +        'INSTALL_CMOD=${D}${libdir}/lua/5.5' \
>         install
>     install -d ${D}${libdir}/pkgconfig
> 
>     sed -e s/@VERSION@/${PV}/ -e s#@LIBDIR@#${libdir}# -e s#@INCLUDEDIR@#${includedir}# ${UNPACKDIR}/lua.pc.in > ${S}/lua.pc
>     install -m 0644 ${S}/lua.pc ${D}${libdir}/pkgconfig/
> -    rmdir ${D}${datadir}/lua/5.4
> +    rmdir ${D}${datadir}/lua/5.5
>     rmdir ${D}${datadir}/lua
> }

Maybe use 5.* to avoid having to do this on every upgrade?

Ross