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lua default version



The DESCR files in lua51, lua52 and lua53 are all the same.  It would be
nice if someone who understands added a final paragraph to each
explaining about each one being old/recommended/bleeding-edge -- to me,
that's the important part in a DESCR like this since "the lua package
has lua" is fairly obvious :-)

Separately, I wonder if we should be changing the default version.
Currently it's 5.2, which leads me to the conclusion that 5.1 is old
(and anyone using/needing it should upgrade) and that that 5.3 is still
too new/bleeding-edge for normal use.  But I am not convinced that's
right - looking at the release dates at

  http://www.lua.org/ftp/

it seems to support the theory:

 lua51 is no longer maintained and migration is overdue
 lua52 is stable/old and users should start migrating
 lua53 is stable/current

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