Bug#730554: New version - minetest 0.4.8 released at November 23, please update packages and add minetest-mod-* to Recommends

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

Package: minetest
Version: 0.4.7+repack-3

Minetest package is outdated in Debian - new minetest 0.4.8 was released on 
November 2013.
0.4.8 release contains lots of improvements and bugfixes comparing to older 0.4.7 version, which is currently in Debian.
It's very important to have 0.4.8 packaged, because lots of mods doesn't work with 0.4.7
Also it would be nice to add to Recommends (or Suggests) fields some mods, which
are already packaged in Debian: minetest-mod-moreblocks, minetest-mod-moreores, minetest-mod-pipeworks

0.4.7 → 0.4.8 New Features
Big gameplay changes:
    Added drowning (PilzAdam, RealBadAngel, BlockMen)
    Added weather support (proller) 

Smaller gameplay tweaks:
    Added new sounds (someone who can't decide if he wants to be called mitori or mito551)
    Don't predict placing and removing nodes if interact privilege is missing (PilzAdam) 

Logistic changes:
    Clean up rendering code a bit (increases FPS by 5 to 10) (Exio)
    Added support for IPv6 (matttpt)
    Don't write player files all the time if they are not modified (PilzAdam)
    Made the main menu Lua based (sapier, kahrl)
    Change static ContentFeatures array into a vector (rathgit, kahrl)
    Allow multiple singleplayer games at the same time (PilzAdam)
    Added texture pack selection to main menu (Novatux)
    Don't write files directly but rather write to a temporary file that gets renamed after succesfully written; fixes many causes of corrupted files (PilzAdam)
    Adjust the Lua API structure and improve header inclusion to decrease compile time (kahrl)
    Database abstraction, LevelDB support (sfan5, wieszak, xyz)

Visual changes:
    Added support for bumpmapping (RealBadAngel)
    Added diagonal liquid animation (kahrl)
    Damage updates and effects are now sent to other players (PilzAdam) 

Other things: 
    Play player_damage.ogg when recieving damage and player_falling_damage.ogg on falling damage (PilzAdam)
    Added basic unicode support to the console in Linux (Exio)
    Added a setting for max loop count per step in liquid update (PilzAdam)
    Added math mapgen with fractal based worlds (proller)
    Disallow the name 'singleplayer' in a multiplayer server (PilzAdam)
    Added max_objects_per_block to minetest.conf to control the maximum number of static objects per block (Novatux)
    Removed broken farmesh (kahrl)
    Added language setting to minetest.conf which forces Minetest to use specified translation (xyz) 

Bug Fixes
    Fixed print(nil) crashing the server (kahrl)
    Fixed output of profiler (F6) when using freetype (kahrl)
    Fixed bug where wrong item is selected when dropping something in the inventory on another stack (kahrl)
    Fixed lighting bug caused by disappearing lava (PilzAdam)
    Fixed /unban command crashing the server (kahrl)
    Fixed lighting bug with 6d facedir (RealBadAngel)
    Fixed and improved view range tuner (celeron55)
    Fixed and improved anticheat (celeron55)
    Fixed server getting completely choked up on even a little of DoS (celeron55)
    Fixed crack overlay for animated textures (kahrl)
    Added fallback font for Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages, the translations in those languages can now be displayed (xyz)
    Fixed most object duplication bugs (celeron55) 

Modding-related Changes
     Added ingame modstore to download mods from mmdb (sapier)
     Added minetest.register_decoration() (kwolekr)
     Added schematic support; new functions minetest.place_schematic() and minetest.create_schematic() (kwolekr)
     Seperated formspecs of furnace and chests to provide override by mods (BlockMen)
     Added Lua VoxelManip (kwolekr) http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=6396
     Added vector helpers (ShadowNinja)
     Added range to item definition (PilzAdam)
     Added after_use to item definition (Novatux)
     Added liquid_range to node definition (PilzAdam)
     Added collide_with_objects to entitiy definition, to disable object <-> object collision (PilzAdam)
     Added minetest.facedir_to_dir() and 6d facedir support for minetest.dir_to_facedir() (hdastwb)
     Added gettext for image_button (BlockMen)
     Added stepheight to entity definition (sapier)
     Added support for multiple wherein nodes in <code>minetest.register_ore() (PilzAdam)
     Added minetest.register_on_cheat() (celeron55)
     Added automatic_face_movement_dir to entity definition (sapier)
     Added player:hud_set_hotbar_image() and player:hud_set_hotbar_selected_image() (PilzAdam, BlockMen)
     Added percent scaling for HUD images (BlockMen, kahrl)
     Added minetest.get_gametime() (Novatux)
     Moved tree growing and grass growing ABMs to Lua (Novatux)
     Added minetest.register_on_craft() and minetest.register_craft_predict() (Novatux) 

Formspec Additions/Changes:
    pwdfield, vertlabel, tabheader, dropdown and checkbox (sapier)
    <noclip>;<drawborder>;<pressed texture name> options for image_button (sapier, BlockMen)
    textlist and box with color support (sapier, sfan5)
    listcolors and bgcolor (BlockMen, kahrl)
    <auto_clip> option for background images (BlockMen)
    Added support for a callbeck on formspec close (Novatux) 

See http://dev.minetest.net/Changelog

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