I upgraded my own addon a few times using luarocks install lls-addon-ddnetpp and the .luarc.json looks like this now
{
"workspace":{
"library":["lua_modules/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.5/lls-addon-ddnetpp/0.3-1/library","lua_modules/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.5/lls-addon-ddnetpp/0.5-0/library","lua_modules/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.5/lls-addon-ddnetpp/0.5-1/library","lua_modules/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.5/lls-addon-ddnetpp/0.5-2/library"]
}
}