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Introducing Lua 5.5 #7435

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Lua 5.5 has been released on 2025.12.15 and brings some new features (also breaking changes), and now packages are starting to require the newest version of Lua. To introduce Lua 5.5,

  • Package Lua 5.5
  • Package Luarocks for Lua 5.5
  • Package available Lua modules for Lua 5.5
    • lua-bitop
    • lua-cjson
    • lua-curl
    • lua-lpeg
    • lua-luv
    • lua-lyaml
    • lua-mpack
  • Point lua (currently provided by lua5.4) to lua5.5
  • Test existing Lua packages against lua5.5, switch to lua5.5 if compatible
    • freeciv
    • graphviz
    • libinput
    • lmerge
    • nmap
    • rollmeow
    • wesnoth
    • weston
    • wireplumber
  • Update wiki page to reflect the updates

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