Ubuntu
bittorrent package

bittorrent 4

Bug #51348 reported by Adam Petaccia
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #39993: New upstream version available (4.4.0). Edit Remove
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Dapper Backports
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bittorrent (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

This will have to be bumped in Edgy, (I'm sorry, but I'm not sure of all the protocols I have to go through to do that), but the new bittorrents seem much improved, including building with GTK instead of wxWidgets, zeroconf support, threaded disk I/O, and most importantly, changing options at run time for the console versions. Seems like a very nice thing to have.

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Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

4 is not in Edgy yet.

Changed in dapper-backports:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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John Dong (jdong) wrote :

Marking Ubuntu's bittorrent as "affected" -- will it ever be possible for Ubuntu to get a bittorrent4 package? I understand that removing BT 3.4 will break a lot of BT frontends, so how about a bittorrent4 package in Edgy?

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Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote :

BitTorrent 4 cannot be included in Ubuntu due to licensing issues.

Changed in bittorrent:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott) wrote : Re: bittorrent 4, what issues

As I don't have a spare lawer, is it (please) possible for someone who knows what the licensing issues are to list them.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote : Re: [Bug 51348] Re: bittorrent 4, what issues

See recent discussions on ubuntu-devel and the debian-legal discussions
it links to.

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Adam Petaccia (mighmos) wrote :

No offense, but its not very helpful when people ask for an explanation, or even just a link, and someone says "go search for it".

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Dapper Backports because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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