[bug#52956] [PATCH] gnu: darktable: update to 3.8.0

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi John and Alex,

John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> skribis:

> Thanks for the update to darktable. However, I noticed in the release notes 
> that darktable now requires Lua 5.4 (we only have 5.3.5). When I tried my own 
> update locally I could see that Lua support, needed for plugins, was disabled 
> at configure due to the missing Lua 5.4 version.
>
> Release notes: https://www.darktable.org/2021/12/darktable-3.8.0-released/
>
> I think it would be best to have the newer Lua version so we don't lose 
> plugin support. Is there a patch for Lua 5.4 for Guix (my quick search didn't 
> fine one)?

Indeed.  I don’t see Lua 5.4 in the patch queue at issues.guix.gnu.org.
Does one of you want to give it a try?

Thanks,
Ludo’.