Import irrlicht 1.8.4 from debian unstable for Yakkety 16.10 release

[est31]

Hello,

Debian has recently updated their libirrlicht and libirrlicht-dev packages to the 1.8.4 release of irrlicht.

I request irrlicht 1.8.4 to be included in the yakkety 16.10 release of ubuntu, through the freeze exception process [0].

Please see the changelog for irrlicht 1.8.4 in svn [1] and on their official forum [2].

That release is only a bugfix release which doesn't add any new features or rewrites, so it should be safe to add.

Also, as upstream of minetest, one of irrlicht's two reverse dependencies, I haven't heard of any reports of regressions from our users that use rolling release distros.

It has had enough time to be tested by those users, as the release was in June.

Note however that I am no ubuntu developer, so I can't upload it myself. It would be great if someone could do it for me. Thank you!

[0]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess
[1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/irrlicht/code/5321/tree//branches/releases/1.8/changes.txt
[2]: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=51448

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Sure, you can have an FFe (and sponsorship).

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

This bug was fixed in the package irrlicht - 1.8.4+dfsg1-1
Sponsored for est31 (mtest31)

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irrlicht (1.8.4+dfsg1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
    - Remove gcc6.patch; applied upstream.

 -- Vincent Cheng <email address hidden> Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:54:13 -0700

[est31 (mtest31)]

Awesome, thank you!