Please backport transmission

[Shirish Agarwal]

Transmission 1.51 has a large number of new features, usability improvements and bug fixes. It would be nice to provide this for Intrepid and Hardy users, who now have relatively old versions.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Re-assigning to intrepid-backports

[csola48 (mail-csordaslaszlo)]

Please backport transmission 1.40 to Hardy too...

csola

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Transmission 1.41 is coming soon, and I will get that in to Jaunty when it is released. There are some high-priority bugs milestoned upstream for 1.41, so I think we should wait for 1.41 before considering a backport to Intrepid.

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

I would second that, smart move Chris.
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[Tony Manco (trmanco)]

Transmission 1.42 has been released:

All Platforms

    * Better peer management
    * Support BitTorrent Enhancement Proposal (BEP) #21 "Extension for Partial Seeds"
    * Partial support for BEP #6 "Fast Extension" (reject, have all/none)
    * Honor the peer's BEP #10 reqq key, when available
    * Fix 1.40 "Got HTTP Status Code: 0" error message
    * Fix 1.40 "lazy bitfield" error
    * Fix 1.40 "jumpy upload speed" bug
    * More accurate bandwidth measurement and allocation
    * Fix handshake peer_id error
    * Correctly handle Windows-style newlines in Bluetack blocklists
    * File selection & priority was reset when editing a torrent's tracker list
    * Fix autoconf/automake build warnings

GTK+

    * In the Details dialog's peer tabs, rows were sometimes duplicated
    * Minor bugfixes, usability changes, and locale improvements
    * Three new translations: Afrikaans, Asturian, Bosnian
    * Sixteen updated translations

Daemon

    * Fix 1.40 bug in handling IP whitelist
    * Minor bugfixes and output cleanup
    * Windows portability

CLI

    * Fix small free-memory-read bug

Time for a backport when it gets into Jaunty :)

[Jean Levasseur (levasseur.jean)]

Builds, install, runs well without source change, using Prevu under
Intrepid.

Le samedi 27 décembre 2008 à 16:45 +0000, Tony Manco a écrit :
> Transmission 1.42 has been released:
>
> All Platforms
>
> * Better peer management
> * Support BitTorrent Enhancement Proposal (BEP) #21 "Extension for Partial Seeds"
> * Partial support for BEP #6 "Fast Extension" (reject, have all/none)
> * Honor the peer's BEP #10 reqq key, when available
> * Fix 1.40 "Got HTTP Status Code: 0" error message
> * Fix 1.40 "lazy bitfield" error
> * Fix 1.40 "jumpy upload speed" bug
> * More accurate bandwidth measurement and allocation
> * Fix handshake peer_id error
> * Correctly handle Windows-style newlines in Bluetack blocklists
> * File selection & priority was reset when editing a torrent's tracker list
> * Fix autoconf/automake build warnings
>
> GTK+
>
> * In the Details dialog's peer tabs, rows were sometimes duplicated
> * Minor bugfixes, usability changes, and locale improvements
> * Three new translations: Afrikaans, Asturian, Bosnian
> * Sixteen updated translations
>
> Daemon
>
> * Fix 1.40 bug in handling IP whitelist
> * Minor bugfixes and output cleanup
> * Windows portability
>
> CLI
>
> * Fix small free-memory-read bug
>
> Time for a backport when it gets into Jaunty :)
>
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> please backport transmission 1.40 from jaunty
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304252
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
> Backporters, which is the registrant for Intrepid Ibex Backports.
>

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

Jean Levasseur
     Is that transmission 1.42 you are talking about?
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[Jean Levasseur (levasseur.jean)]

Shirish Agarwal: nope, I'm talking about transmission 1.40 that is
available in the Jaunty repos.
> Jean Levasseur
> Is that transmission 1.42 you are talking about?
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[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

Hi Jean Levasseur,
      Had come to know other day that transmission 1.40 has few bugs
and some critical ones (major regressions) at that. Its 1.42 which is
supposed to be good one.

I would refer you to this thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=994532 where we are
discussing transmission
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[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

FWIW, I prepared Transmission 1.42 for Jaunty. I'm just awaiting somebody to sponsor it, but it seems a lot of people are probably still on vacation.

[Jean Levasseur (levasseur.jean)]

Le samedi 03 janvier 2009 à 04:24 +0000, Shirish Agarwal a écrit :
> Hi Jean Levasseur,
> Had come to know other day that transmission 1.40 has few bugs
> and some critical ones (major regressions) at that. Its 1.42 which is
> supposed to be good one.
>
> I would refer you to this thread
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=994532 where we are
> discussing transmission
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> --
> please backport transmission 1.40 from jaunty
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304252
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
> Backporters, which is the registrant for Intrepid Ibex Backports.
>
Thanks for the info, I haven't used much Transmission since the upgrade,
so I didn't notice anything. I'll downgrade to 1.38 and wait for 1.42
to come out!

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

1.42-0ubuntu1 is in the archive now, and this backports with no source changes.

The packaging has changed for Jaunty though - transmission-cli has been split in to transmission-daemon and transmission-cli. Would it be best to revert this change for the backport, and keep the Intrepid packaging? (it's quite trivial to do)

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

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[Frits Letteboer (f-letteboer)]

Confirmed; Builds and runs on Intrepid as-is.

[logoisk (logoisk)]

Thanks

[Hew (hew)]

Changed backport request for transmission 1.51-0ubuntu1, now in Jaunty.

[Andriy Tymchenko (silpol)]

it _might_ be makes sense to keep increasing version for Jaunty up to 1.5x

but I'd really want to see rather 1.42 (yes, particular version 1.42, not 1.40) on Hardy -- Hardy has enough stability on overall system level, and 1.42 seem to be good *milestone-alike* stable (no painful bugs, you can have uptime weeks, if not months) for Transmission.

[Hew (hew)]

It does make sense to have the latest version as the backport. I'm not sure why you would prefer 1.42 over 1.51. The latest version includes a large number of bugfixes.

1.42 is no longer in the Ubuntu archive as it has been replaced by 1.51 in Jaunty.

[Valentin Rocher (bishiboosh)]

b/i/r under prevu
+1

[Andriy Tymchenko (silpol)]

I don't _push_ for my opinion, I try to bring rationale.

Rationale is to keep something currently-most-stable with LTS (definition https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS ) while stuff current unstable/testing with fresh, sometimes bleeding-edge, SW. This way you provide those who seek stability with more stable things, and those who look for advanced/feature-rich at expense of quality (you know, you can't name semi-/immature software as reliable and robust, it just don't hold argument of stability by definition).

Now, coming back to Transmission, 1.42 looks as stable enough, i.e. good pair for LTS. While 1.5x looks nice together with fresh & shiny Jaunty ;)

[logoisk (logoisk)]

Уважаемый Андрей
Спасибо за письмо и присланную информацию.
Ubuntu intrepid нравится мне все больше. Были проблемы c NetworkManager-ом, т.к. у меня не простая сеть: комп с WiFi, далее точка доступа, далее домашняя сеть и затем Интернет-провайдер. Но сейчас слава богу все устаканилось и нормально работает. Теперь бьюсь над другой проблемой - инсталляцией и настройкой Autodesk MapGuide под Убубнту... Пока убил на это целую неделю и пришел почти к начальной точке.
Всего Вам наилушего, здоровья, удачи, успехов и личного счастья!
Григорий

[logoisk (logoisk)]

Dear Valentin Rocher
Thamk you for letter and information!
Best regards
Grigori

[logoisk (logoisk)]

Dear sir Hew McLachlan
Thank you for the letter and information!
Best regards
Grigori

[Hew (hew)]

Andriy, 1.51 is the latest stable upstream release, and therefore a perfect candidate for backporting. It makes no sense to backport an old version over the latest where no regressions have been identified. LTS users that demand high stability should not be using backports anyway.

Again, 1.42 has already been removed from the Ubuntu repositories. Please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports where rule #1 states "Only packages currently in Ubuntu's repositories are eligible for backporting".

[dn (nobled)]

Transmission 1.51 from Jaunty builds in pbuilder without changes and installs and runs fine on hardy, but building Transmission 1.75 fails without backporting libevent 1.4 first.

[Cosme Domínguez (cosme)]

Intrepid -> EOL
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases