ELinks built without lua support

[cmeerw]

Even though the source package contains a patch to build with lua5.1, the configure script isn't updated during the build and therefore the package is built without any lua support at all. This can also be seen from the package dependencies:

Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.15), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libfsplib0 (>= 0.9), libgnutls26 (>= 2.12.6.1-0), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.4), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.10+dfsg~), libidn11 (>= 1.13), libperl5.14 (>= 5.14.2), libtre5, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), elinks-data (= 0.12~pre5-8ubuntu1)

Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10

elinks:
  Installed: 0.12~pre5-8ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.12~pre5-8ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.12~pre5-8ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/ubuntu/ quantal/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I can confirm that there is no dependency on lua, and this applies to Debian as well, except for some less common architectures (http://packages.debian.org/sid/elinks). So it does look likely to me that there is some issue at build time.

I tried rebuilding with after a ./autogen.sh, but this didn't seem to help.

But either way, it looks likely that if this issue is valid then it affects Debian as well, so it would be best fixed in Debian, and then Ubuntu will pick it up on the next merge.

Would you mind verifying the Debian case, and if it is affected then could you file a bug with Debian please?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[cmeerw (cmeerw)]

BTW, I finally reported this upstream to Debian a few weeks ago, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733482

[reinaert albrecht (pacasals)]

Since upstream seems to take ages to incorporate it, I'll post the simple patch to fix this bug here as well.

[reinaert albrecht (pacasals)]

It would seem that upstream has fixed this.

[reinaert albrecht (pacasals)]

I've been using the debian package for a while which has fixed this issue but since it wasn't built for ubuntu it crashes from time to time. Could someone put the update from debian through to ubuntu?

[cmeerw (cmeerw)]

I am actually not sure that it has been properly fixed in Debian yet - if you look at the package dependencies you will notice that the elinks package only depends on liblua on some platform (but not others).

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Debian reports this fixed in 0.12~pre6-9 and Ubuntu has had 0.12~pre6-10 since Wily, so I presume this is fixed in Ubuntu now also. Please explain and reopen if this is wrong.