[FFe] request for new upstream version

[Gabriele Postorino]

Binary package hint: rtorrent

New upstream version 0.8.0 adds DHT method to rtorrent.

DHT is a method for trackerless system where every peer acts as a tracker sharing distributed hash tables.
This is already implemented by the BitTorrent, µTorrent, BitComet, KTorrent and Deluge clients.

rtorrent 0.8.0 depends on libtorrent 0.12.0

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

This requires a FFe for both libtorrent and rtorrent.

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

This is upstream changelog, valid for both packages.

It is not available in the packages, but in libtorrent-devel mailing list:
http://rakshasa.no/pipermail/libtorrent-devel/2008-January/001470.html

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

Buildlogs for libtorrent:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13116998/buildlog_ubuntu-hardy-i386.rtorrent_0.8.0-0ubuntu1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13116994/buildlog_ubuntu-hardy-amd64.rtorrent_0.8.0-0ubuntu1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13117002/buildlog_ubuntu-hardy-lpia.rtorrent_0.8.0-0ubuntu1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

Buildlogs for libtorrent:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13116468/buildlog_ubuntu-hardy-i386.libtorrent_0.12.0-0ubuntu1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13116476/buildlog_ubuntu-hardy-lpia.libtorrent_0.12.0-0ubuntu1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13116472/buildlog_ubuntu-hardy-amd64.libtorrent_0.12.0-0ubuntu1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz

(Previous one are for rtorrent, sorry).

[StefanPotyra (sistpoty)]

Basically I'm ok with this FFe:

rtorrent is the only rdepends of libtorrent.
and:
[19:32:33] <jdong> sistpoty: looks good to me, having a lightweight client that supports DHT will be good for Hardy

But please tell us first, what testing you have done. Thanks.

[Gabriele Postorino (no0tic)]

I'm testing it right now with a trackerless torrent and it's working fine

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

This is what the DM says about this:

Bryan Donlan wrote:
> Package: rtorrent
> Version: 0.7.9-1+b1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> A new version (0.8.0) of rtorrent is available from
> http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/
>
Hi Bryan,

That's the unstable release and I refuse to use it because of the
instability of this version and constant changes.

Regards.
- --
Jose Luis Rivas. San Cristóbal, Venezuela. PGP: 0xCACAB118

[John Dong (jdong)]

I think this is a good candidate for a FFe. Right now we don't have a lightweight or headless client that supports DHT so this feature will fill a niche. The reverse deps are self-contained so it'd have little to no impact on the rest of the archive.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Ack #2 and approved.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libtorrent - 0.12.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
libtorrent (0.12.0-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * New SONAME, affected files changed accordingly.
  * debian/patches/update-changelog.patch:
    - Updated with new changelog.
  * debian/rules:
    - Add DEB_INSTALL_CHANGELOGS_ALL to install ChangeLog (LP: #194188).
  * debian/control:
    - Update Maintainer field as per spec.
  * Feature Freeze exception granted as per LP: #211910.

 -- Luca Falavigna <email address hidden> Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:34:20 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rtorrent - 0.8.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
rtorrent (0.8.0-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * debian/control:
    - Build-depend on libtorrent-dev (>=0.12.0).
    - Update Maintainer field as per spec.
  * debian/debian/rtorrent.links:
    - Adjust link to match new libtorrent SONAME.
  * Feature Freeze exception granted as per LP: #211910.

 -- Luca Falavigna <email address hidden> Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:35:09 +0200

[Bryan Donlan (bdonlan)]

Just an FYI,

I've been using a selfmade build of this on my debian (testing) server and it seems to have a number of crash bugs. See eg, http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ticket/1221

Also, although it was not marked as such when I filed the request in debian's tracker, upstream has since clarified this as a development/unstable release on their website. I'm not certain that it's appropriate for an LTS release...

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Well it's already uploaded, so I guess we need to get some testing done ASAP.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

We might want to get 0.8.2/0.12.2 for Ubuntu 8.04.1, which contain bugfixes etc.

I'm just uploading them to Intrepid.

[Gabriele Postorino (no0tic)]

I have been using the 0.8.0 since end of march without a single crash.
I checked some days ago in debian sid for a package update to merge it in intrepid but there weren't any.
Are you building from upstream?

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I had rtorrent crashing today, so I've investigated (but could not find the root cause).

The Debian maintainer does not want to ship the experimental/unstable branch, so we're "ahead of Debian", until it gets declared as stable. Therefore, yes, I've updated the packages using "uscan/uupdate" and added a patch to both for GCC 4.3 (from upstream bugtracker).

The most important changes appear to be:
* Fixed an alignment bug in the DHT code.
* Fixed a memory corruption bug in scgi_task.cc.

* Fixed EINTR handling in execute command. Patch by anonymous.
* Fixed a couple of memory leaks in xmlrpc.cc. Reported by Novik.
* Initial seeding support added. Patch by Josef Drexler.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

This bug is done (fixed). Further comments about issues relate to rtorrent in this bug aren't going to result in anything happening.