Secure testing team - Dec 2009 - lua and tolua embedded in enigma

Hi,
lua and tolua source are embedded in "enigma".
It seems currenlty not possible to untangle this easily, since enigma is
built using C++ and liblua is build with plain C, which apparently
breaks exception handling. Therefore it seems it would be required to
have C++ built lua packages in Debian to resolve this.

The situation has been like that since the very beginning of enigma in
Debian; for one or another reason it included lua.
Upstream enigma also includes libzipios++, but the Debian package has
been using the Debian provided version for a long time.

---
lua
	- enigma (embed)
	NOTE: requires lua built with C++

tolua
	- enigma (embed)
	NOTE: actually tolua++, version 1.0.92

libzipios++-dev
	- enigma (removed)

---

Regards,
Erich

Hello,

* Erich Schubert <erich at debian.org>, 2009-12-08,
01:47:
>lua and tolua source are embedded in "enigma".
>It seems currenlty not possible to untangle this easily, since enigma is
>built using C++ and liblua is build with plain C, which apparently
>breaks exception handling. Therefore it seems it would be required to
>have C++ built lua packages in Debian to resolve this.
Did you talk with lua maintainers about this? Maybe it would be possible 
to build a binary package with C++-enabled version of lua.

There is an open RFP bug for tolua++: http://bugs.debian.org/446020.
A few other packages could benefit from having it packaged.

Anyway, I''ve updated the embedded-code-copies files. Thanks for your 
information.

-- 
Jakub Wilk
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* Jakub Wilk:
> Did you talk with lua maintainers about this? Maybe it would be
> possible to build a binary package with C++-enabled version of lua.
Perhaps it might even be possible to unconditionally compile with C++?
Raising exceptions will be somewhat slower (because the stack needs to
be unwound), though.