Package is incompatible with repository version of the main Transmission app's RPC

[AllenS]

Binary package hint: python-transmissionrpc

Description:Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04

python-transmissionrpc:
  Installed: 0.3-2
  Candidate: 0.3-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.3-2 0
        500 http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The squeeze version of python-transmissionrpc uses transmission RPC version 1.7x

The current version of transmission in squeeze is 1.92 which uses the newer trunk version - http://trac.transmissionbt.com/browser/trunk/doc/rpc-spec.txt

Unfortunately there has been a breaking change in the spec. Many attributes have been moved into the 'trackerStats' array - e.g. seederCount.

The following script will demonstrate the problem:

***
#!/usr/bin/python

import transmissionrpc

tc = transmissionrpc.Client('localhost', port=9091, user='transmission', password='transmission')

torrent = tc.info(1)[1]

print torrent.trackerStats[0]['seederCount']
***

Actual output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./transmission-control", line 9, in <module>
    print torrent.trackerStats[0]['seederCount']
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/transmissionrpc/transmission.py", line 86, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError('No attribute %s' % name)
AttributeError: No attribute trackerStats

Expected output:
<an integer>

I have tried my test script with version 4.0 of transmissionrpc it works correctly.

Regards
AllenS

[StefanPotyra (sistpoty)]

Hi,

sorry, I guess I don't understand exactly what you're requesting? In particular, what (package) is broken at the moment, and which version from (debian?) would fix that?

Thanks,
   Stefan.

[Christian Kampka (kampka)]

Hi Stefan,

version 0.3 of python-transmissionrpc is not compatible with transmission 1.92 which is packed in Lucid. Thus, the package is simply not usable with a Lucid transmission installation.
Version 0.4 as available in Debian fixes this issue.
Since it is a pure python package, it can be easily imported from Debian.

[StefanPotyra (sistpoty)]

Christian, thanks for clearing it up. Now it all makes sense.

FFe granted, please go ahead.

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

I uploaded 0.4 in Debian. New upstream version is compatible with transmission >= 1.8, while current one generates tracebacks as shown above. It definitely needs an update.

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ubuntu Installer <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:35 PM
Subject: [ubuntu/lucid] transmissionrpc 0.4-1 (Waiting for approval)
To: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <email address hidden>

transmissionrpc (0.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

 [ Luca Falavigna ]
 * New upstream release.
   - Support for Transmission 1.8 and newer (Closes: #575897).
   - Do not raise an exception if the same torrent is being added twice,
     warn user instead (Closes: #569178).
 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4, no changes required.

Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:44:05 +0200
Changed-By: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <email address hidden>
Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team
<email address hidden>
Origin: debian/unstable
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/transmissionrpc/0.4-1

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