[aur-general] Minetest and Irrlicht

[Nick Shvelidze]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:35 PM Yangjun Wang via aur-general
<aur-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> I am not sure if this is the right list to report the situation here.
>
> I am the maintainer of minetest-git, and Minetest uses its own Irrlicht
> fork after its latest release (i.e. the PKGBUILD from the official repo
> does not include any changes regarding the Irrlicht fork), so I would
> like to know:
>
> 1) Whether I should keep the Irrlicht fork in the same package as
> minetest-server-git and minetest-git by statically linking the Irrlicht
> library (which I chose to do for now)
>
> 2a) (If I statically link the Irrlicht library into the Minetest
> binaries) What to use for the version number, as the version of both
> Minetest and the Irrlicht fork should (in my opinion) be reflected
>
> 2b) (If I put the Irrlicht fork into a separate package) The name of the
> package for the Irrlicht fork
>
>
> Yangjun Wang

I think naming it irrlicht-minetest is appropriate since it's a fork
by minetest.