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