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Description of problem: RHEL 8 ships with a `lua` package but not a related `lua-devel` package. This makes compiling programs against lua impossible without manually downloading and copying over source files to the appropriate locations. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 8.0 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms --enable=rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 2. sudo yum search lua-devel Actual results: ``` $ sudo yum install lua-devel Updating Subscription Management repositories. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) 3.2 kB/s | 4.5 kB 00:01 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs) 2.8 kB/s | 4.0 kB 00:01 No match for argument: lua-devel Error: Unable to find a match $ sudo yum whatprovides lua.h Updating Subscription Management repositories. Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:51 ago on Mon 29 Jul 2019 09:59:51 PM EDT. Error: No Matches found ``` Expected results: There should be a package for lua-devel that can be installed. All versions of Fedora ship lua-devel and so does RHEL 7. Additional info: According to this documentation [1], lua-devel is no longer a package in RHEL 8 (but lua is). I am not sure why this package would be dropped. The source code for the RPM spec file shows that there is still logic for building a devel package for RHEL/CentOS 8 [2]. 1. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/index 2. https://git.centos.org/rpms/lua/blob/c8/f/SPECS/lua.spec#_61
The lua-devel package wasn't included in the distro because the RPM team doesn't want to support it. There is currently no business justification to release it. If there's the business justification, please reopen the bug.