[bug#52956] [PATCH] gnu: darktable: update to 3.8.0

[John Kehayias]

Hello,

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On Saturday, January 8th, 2022 at 4:59 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi John and Alex,
>
> John Kehayias john.kehayias@protonmail.com skribis:
>
> > Thanks for the update to darktable. However, I noticed in the release notes 
> > that darktable now requires Lua 5.4 (we only have 5.3.5). When I tried my 
> > own update locally I could see that Lua support, needed for plugins, was 
> > disabled at configure due to the missing Lua 5.4 version.
> >
> > Release notes: https://www.darktable.org/2021/12/darktable-3.8.0-released/
> >
> > I think it would be best to have the newer Lua version so we don't lose 
> > plugin support. Is there a patch for Lua 5.4 for Guix (my quick search 
> > didn't fine one)?
>
> Indeed. I don’t see Lua 5.4 in the patch queue at issues.guix.gnu.org.
> Does one of you want to give it a try?
>
I just tried a guix build lua --with-latest=lua and it built version 5.4.3 
without any issue (even with the patches it has). I don't know anything to test 
with Lua, but in a guix shell it reported the correct version and the 
interpreter ran (I looked up a simple print statement which did work).

If there's nothing in particular I should look for, I can submit a quick patch 
for this. Should the package be lua-5.4 or maybe lua-next? And should the 
current lua now inherit from this latest version?

I'm assuming for the lua system to be updated would need a staging or 
core-updates cycle, with guix refresh lua -l reporting "408 packages would 
ensure 782 dependent packages are rebuilt". So we wouldn't want to replace 
"lua" with 5.4.3 yet.

John