[tlbuild] Security: Lua update and rebuild required

Norbert Preining norbert at preining.info
Mon Oct 5 01:03:59 CEST 2020


On Sun, 04 Oct 2020, luigi scarso wrote:
> We have now Lua 5.3.6, but it seems that the security patches are for lua
> 5.4 only.

Well, then a backport might be necessary. If you include literate (or
nearly literate) copies of libraries, the burden of security updates and
backports falls onto you.

Best

Norbert

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