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bittorrent package

Description of "bittorrent" package should mention that it has a tracker too

Bug #247167 reported by Prateek Karandikar
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
bittorrent (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: bittorrent

I was looking for a bittorrent tracker in the repos, and so I searched for "tracker" in Adept, and also did apt-cache search tracker. The package bittorrent did not show up, though it does contain a tracker (bttrack). I'm using Kubuntu 8.04.

Tags: patch
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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote :

I agree, it should show up in the search results in apt-cache, Synaptic, and Adept.

Changed in bittorrent:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Nathan Handler (nhandler) wrote :

Would you mind proposing a better description for the package? Once you do, I would be glad to prepare a debdiff to implement it.

The current description looks like this:

Description: Original BitTorent client - console tools
 BitTorrent is a tool for distributing files. It's extremely
 easy to use - downloads are started by clicking on hyperlinks.
 Whenever more than one person is downloading at once
 they send pieces of the file(s) to each other, thus relieving
 the central server's bandwidth burden. Even with many
 simultaneous downloads, the upload burden on the central server
 remains quite small, since each new downloader introduces new
 upload capacity.
 .
 This package contains the tools which are used for console-only
 downloading. If you want the GUI interface, install the
 bittorrent-gui package.
 .
  Homepage: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/

Changed in bittorrent:
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Prateek Karandikar (prateek.karandikar) wrote :

"Original BitTorrent client" could be replaced by "Original BitTorrent client and tracker".

The last paragraph could be replaced by

This package contains console-only tools for downloading, and creating torrent meta files, as well as a tracker. If you want the GUI interface, install the bittorrent-gui package.

Thanks!

Nathan Handler (nhandler)
Changed in bittorrent:
assignee: nobody → nhandler
status: Incomplete → In Progress
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Nathan Handler (nhandler) wrote :

bittorrent (3.4.2-11.1ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Mention that bittorrent has a tracker in the Description (LP: #247167)
  * Move Homepage from Description to its own field

 -- Nathan Handler <email address hidden> Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:59:04 -0500

Changed in bittorrent:
assignee: nhandler → nobody
status: In Progress → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package bittorrent - 3.4.2-11.1ubuntu2

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bittorrent (3.4.2-11.1ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Mention that bittorrent has a tracker in the Description (LP: #247167)
  * Move Homepage from Description to its own field

 -- Nathan Handler <email address hidden> Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:59:04 -0500

Changed in bittorrent:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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