[ISSUE] LuaJIT will fail to build in the future

[ISSUE] LuaJIT will fail to build in the future

[rfl890]

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New issue by rfl890 on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/48349

Description:
The creator of LuaJIT, Mike Pall, strongly recommends to use rolling releases for LuaJIT instead of the release tarballs that he provides (not for much longer, apparently):
(https://luajit.org/download.html)

> LuaJIT uses rolling releases. There are no release tarballs available for download.
> Please do not use obsolete versions from older tarballs or zip files. Please remove any outdated links to these downloads — **these links will cease to work soon**. 

Currently the LuaJIT package uses one of these outdated links. It will fail to build in the future. Additionally, the version currently in use hasn't been updated for 6 years. 

Re: LuaJIT will fail to build in the future

[classabbyamp]

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New comment by classabbyamp on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/48349#issuecomment-1907398849

Comment:
we have distfile mirrors at sources.voidlinux.org

Re: LuaJIT will fail to build in the future

[rfl890]

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New comment by rfl890 on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/48349#issuecomment-1908295429

Comment:
I see. On another note will the package be updated to rolling releases or will it continue to stay on the current version?

Re: LuaJIT will fail to build in the future

[yoshiyoshyosh]

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New comment by yoshiyoshyosh on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/48349#issuecomment-1917684099

Comment:
there appears to be new tags by the format of `${version}-ROLLING` that can be downloaded as a targz e.g. `https://repo.or.cz/luajit-2.0.git/snapshot/refs/tags/v2.1.ROLLING.tar.gz`. can probably point the distfiles there if we're sure they'd update the tags from time to time

Re: LuaJIT will fail to build in the future

[yoshiyoshyosh]

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New comment by yoshiyoshyosh on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/48349#issuecomment-1917684099

Comment:
there appears to be new *tags* (not refs, static tags) by the format of `${version}-ROLLING` that can be downloaded as a targz e.g. `https://repo.or.cz/luajit-2.0.git/snapshot/refs/tags/v2.1.ROLLING.tar.gz`. can probably point the distfiles there if we're sure they'd update the tags for updates?

if anything, getting off a 6 year old version to a 5 month old version is probably for the better

Re: LuaJIT will fail to build in the future

[yoshiyoshyosh]

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New comment by yoshiyoshyosh on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/48349#issuecomment-1917684099

Comment:
there appears to be new *tags* (not refs, static tags) by the format of `${version}-ROLLING` that can be downloaded as a targz e.g. `https://repo.or.cz/luajit-2.0.git/snapshot/refs/tags/v2.1.ROLLING.tar.gz`. these tags only track from the beginning of a version's development and, simply due to the rolling release thing they have going on, won't get incremental bugfixes until a new version tag comes out and can be pointed to. they're still like, pseudo-releases so, so maybe we can point distfiles there?

if anything, getting off a 6 year old version to a 5 month old version is probably for the better

Re: LuaJIT will fail to build in the future

[yoshiyoshyosh]

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New comment by yoshiyoshyosh on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/48349#issuecomment-1917684099

Comment:
there appears to be new *tags* (not refs, static tags) by the format of `${version}-ROLLING` that can be downloaded as a targz e.g. `https://repo.or.cz/luajit-2.0.git/snapshot/refs/tags/v2.1.ROLLING.tar.gz`. these tags only track from the beginning of a version's development and, simply due to the rolling release thing they have going on, won't get incremental bugfixes until a new version tag comes out and can be pointed to. they're still like, pseudo-releases though, so maybe we can point distfiles there?

if anything, getting off a 6 year old version to a 5 month old version is probably for the better

Re: LuaJIT will fail to build in the future

[classabbyamp]

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New comment by classabbyamp on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/48349#issuecomment-1917927817

Comment:
my understanding is the tags like 2.1.ROLLING will be periodically re-tagged as a "rolling" release

Re: LuaJIT will fail to build in the future

[yoshiyoshyosh]

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New comment by yoshiyoshyosh on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/48349#issuecomment-1917941174

Comment:
I guess if retags do happen then we can just revbump and have it still work

Re: LuaJIT will fail to build in the future

[yoshiyoshyosh]

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New comment by yoshiyoshyosh on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/48349#issuecomment-1917941174

Comment:
I guess if retags do happen then we can just revbump and have it still work

update: or we could bake the `git show --format=%ct` thing they do in the MAKEFILE in the version

Re: LuaJIT will fail to build in the future

[yoshiyoshyosh]

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New comment by yoshiyoshyosh on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/48349#issuecomment-1917941174

Comment:
I guess if retags do happen then we can just revbump and have it still work

update: or we could bake the `git show --format=%ct` thing they do for the relver in the version

Re: LuaJIT will fail to build in the future

[github-actions]

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New comment by github-actions[bot] on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/48349#issuecomment-2084121178

Comment:
Issues become stale 90 days after last activity and are closed 14 days after that.  If this issue is still relevant bump it or assign it.