#1100786 luarocks requires header files to install pure-lua packages

#1100786#5
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2025-03-18 17:38:49 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Please consider upgrading the luarocks package to version v3.10.0 or
later and relaxing the dependency on the lua5.x-dev packages.

Prior to this version, when attempting to install a "rock" (package) for
a particular Lua version without having the corresponding dev package
it fails with a message like:

$ luarocks install --lua-version=5.4 example.rock
when it consists of only Lua files.

Upstream report: https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/issues/1275

This affects Prosody, see https://issues.prosody.im/1707