luarocks: Package does not install 'manifest' file

[Duboucher Thomas]

Package: luarocks
Version: 2.0.1-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


After a clean install of LuaRocks, the manifest file in /usr/local/lib/luarocks/rocks
is not installed, making luarocks unusable. This does not appear when updating from a
previous installation

#luarocks list
Failed loading manifest for /root/.luarocks/lib/luarocks/rocks
Failed loading manifest for /usr/local/lib/luarocks/rocks

Installed rocks:
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#_

This is probably due to luarocks not generating this file anymore when it doesn't
exist. However, luarocks-admin does generate it with the following command.

#luarocks-admin make_manifest

-- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers intrepid-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'intrepid-updates'), (500, 'intrepid-security'), (500, 'intrepid')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-14-server (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages luarocks depends on:
ii  liblua5.1-0-dev [liblua5 5.1.3-1         Simple, extensible, embeddable pro
ii  lua5.1                   5.1.3-1         Simple, extensible, embeddable pro
ii  wget                     1.11.4-1ubuntu1 retrieves files from the web
ii  zip                      2.32-1          Archiver for .zip files

luarocks recommends no packages.

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