needs option to start minimized

[Nanley Chery]

Binary package hint: transmission

Transmission needs the option to start minimized. This would allow me and other bt users to add transmission to the sessions menu and have it start on boot up. I am using version 1.01

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

upstream xref: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/+bug/184238

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

grr, that's not right. :)

upstream xref: http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/634

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

This is in version 1.03

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Fixed: 1.04 is in hardy now.

[Marian Sigler (maix42)]

This is missing in the man page. (In transmission --help it is)

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

This fix was committed almost exactly one year ago in <http://trac.transmissionbt.com/changeset/5311/trunk/gtk/transmission.1> for Transmission 1.10.

It might make sense to patch this for 1.06 in 8.04, but it should be working in newer versions.

[Marian Sigler (maix42)]

Oh, I didn't know that the manpages are handled by transmission itself, I thought they were added by Ubuntu/Debian. I think it's not that important that it must be fixed in Hardy. (But maybe I will do it as an exercise in packaging)

[Marian Sigler (maix42)]

OK, I've created a debdiff (using this manual: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Recipes/Debdiff). It is attached. Now you need to decide if it's important enough to ship it in hardy :)

[Marian Sigler (maix42)]

I just discovered that the -m flag doesn't work here, it just opens the window like it does without the flag. (Hardy, transmission package has version 1.06-0ubuntu6, About Transmission dialog says 1.06 (5136))

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This is actually fixed.

@Marian: Try to use the transmission package from the backports (version 1.22). If you still need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for "How to request new packages" at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#request-new-packages

[Marian Sigler (maix42)]

Fine, that works. Thanks. But IMHO this is a real bug so it should be pushed into -updates, not only in backports.