Bug 17973 - New transmission has many bugfixes
Summary: New transmission has many bugfixes
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 5
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Rémi Verschelde
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Reported: 2016-03-12 16:13 CET by Erik Schäfer
Modified: 2017-03-12 18:31 CET (History)
5 users (show)

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Source RPM: transmission
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Description Erik Schäfer 2016-03-12 16:13:08 CET
Description of problem:
The packages for most of the bittorrent clients in Mageia 5 are outdated.

Transmission:
Mageia repository version:
transmission-gtk3-2.84-4.mga5.x86_64
transmission-common-2.84-4.mga5.noarch
current Transmission version:
2.92

Deluge:
Mageia repository version:
deluge-1.3.11-1.mga5.noarch
current Deluge version:
1.3.12

qBittorrent:
Mageia repository version:
qbittorrent-3.1.11-1.mga5.x86_64
current qBittorrent version:
3.3.3

rtorrent:
Mageia repository version:
rtorrent-0.9.4-3.mga5.x86_64
current rtorrent version:
0.9.6


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. In terminal, type:
urpmf -f --summary torrent -a client

2.visit the corresponding project sites:
https://www.transmissionbt.com/
http://deluge-torrent.org/
http://www.qbittorrent.org/
https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/
Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2016-03-12 17:56:05 CET
qBittorent had a lot of bugfixes http://www.qbittorrent.org/news.php
for two others I didn't manage to find the changelogs fast, for the third FF crashed when trying to view it.

However, I assume that for such software, it is safer to have the most recent version, anyway.

CC'ing maintainers

 transmission   akien  
 deluge         tarakbumba
 qbittorrent    pasmatt
 rtorrent       remmy

Please file a separate bug report if you decide to push a new version to 5 updates_testing, and set that report to block this one.

(Btw, I did not check the cauldron versions, leaving that to the maintainers)

Keywords: (none) => TRACKER
CC: (none) => marja11, matteo.pasotti, remco, rverschelde, tarakbumba

Comment 2 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2016-03-12 20:05:57 CET
Ehmm, our https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy ? Reporter, if you want to see newer versions of mentioned torrent clients than please open a backport request, so we may try to backport them to Mga5. Thanks.
Comment 3 Rémi Verschelde 2016-03-14 13:24:58 CET
As mentioned by Atilla, we usually only push bugfixes and security fixes to stable releases.

For Transmission, version 2.84 was the lastest stable release when Mageia 5 was released, and version 2.90, 2.91 and 2.92 were only released a few days ago, so I wouldn't call us "outdated" yet.

The changelog shows mostly bug fixes though, so I'll maybe provide an update to mga5: https://trac.transmissionbt.com/browser/trunk/NEWS
Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2016-04-01 22:59:55 CEST
(In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #3)

> 
> The changelog shows mostly bug fixes though, so I'll maybe provide an update
> to mga5: https://trac.transmissionbt.com/browser/trunk/NEWS

Keeping this report in case Rémi wants to do that.

Removing the tracker and the other packages.

@ Erik

It is OK to open backport requests (1 per package) for the other packages.

Keywords: TRACKER => (none)
Hardware: x86_64 => All
Assignee: bugsquad => rverschelde
Summary: transmission, deluge, qbittorrent and rtorrent packages are outdated => New transmission has many bugfixes
Source RPM: (none) => transmission

Comment 5 Rémi Verschelde 2017-03-12 18:31:24 CET
Given the work that I have on Cauldron / Mageia 6, and since this wouldn't cater to an actual bug that Mageia 5 users are having with transmission, I'll pass on that update (and I guess other maintainers would feel the same for the other packages).

Sorry for the late decision, this went under my radar for a while :)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX


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