r13938 - packages/trunk/supertuxkart/debian

[Vincent Cheng]

Author: vincentc-guest
Date: 2013-01-01 09:41:04 +0000 (Tue, 01 Jan 2013)
New Revision: 13938

Modified:
   packages/trunk/supertuxkart/debian/README.source
Log:
supertuxkart: Add link to thread in upstream forums where rationale for embedding irrlicht (and bullet) is much more clearly explained


Modified: packages/trunk/supertuxkart/debian/README.source
===================================================================
--- packages/trunk/supertuxkart/debian/README.source	2012-12-31 03:33:31 UTC (rev 13937)
+++ packages/trunk/supertuxkart/debian/README.source	2013-01-01 09:41:04 UTC (rev 13938)
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@
  - Upstream STK devs have made modifications to Irrlicht that they deem
    necessary for STK, which upstream Irrlicht has rejected [1]. Furthermore,
    in the future, STK devs plan on making more intrusive changes to Irrlicht,
-   which may break the API [2].
+   which may break the API [2]; more detailed explanation at [3].
  - Past attempts to use Debian's version of Irrlicht in STK has been extremely
    troublesome due to upstream STK's usage of unreleased svn revisions of
    Irrlicht (e.g. Irrlicht r3843 for STK 0.7.3). Although I have tried to
-   patch STK to use a system copy of Irrlicht in the past [3], this has caused
-   a number of rendering bugs (e.g. [4]) and a large number of semi-random
-   segfaults (e.g. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11]...), and is simply infeasible now
+   patch STK to use a system copy of Irrlicht in the past [4], this has caused
+   a number of rendering bugs (e.g. [5]) and a large number of semi-random
+   segfaults (e.g. [6][7][8][9][10][11][12]...), and is simply infeasible now
    that upstream STK devs plan on making more intrusive changes to Irrlicht.
 
 Note that the embedded copy of Irrlicht is built with Debian's zlib/bzip2/
@@ -20,20 +20,21 @@
 code (which should address security concerns relating to embedding Irrlicht).
 
 If interested, a more thorough discussion on this topic can be reviewed on
-debian-devel-games, in this thread [12] (starting with [13]).
+debian-devel-games, in this thread [13] (starting with [14]).
 
 [1] http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=3454889
 [2] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/supertuxkart/ticket/689
-[3] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/supertuxkart/ticket/628
-[4] http://bugs.debian.org/679837
-[5] http://bugs.debian.org/677609
-[6] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1011180
-[7] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1048284
-[8] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049398
-[9] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061436
-[10] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1064019
-[11] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069871
-[12] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2012/12/threads.html#00006
-[13] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2012/12/msg00006.html
+[3] http://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3906
+[4] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/supertuxkart/ticket/628
+[5] http://bugs.debian.org/679837
+[6] http://bugs.debian.org/677609
+[7] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1011180
+[8] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1048284
+[9] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049398
+[10] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061436
+[11] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1064019
+[12] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069871
+[13] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2012/12/threads.html#00006
+[14] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2012/12/msg00006.html
 
  -- Vincent Cheng <Vincentc1208 at gmail.com>  Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:45:14 -0800