Package: transmission Version: 4.1.0~beta2+dfsg-3 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, I just upgraded my Debian Bookworm desktop installation to the new stable, Trixie. After starting up Transmission I noticed that many of my torrents were blocked by their respective trackers with a message indicating an unsupported client. The version shipped in Bookworm worked with all of these. Researching the problem I realized that Debian now ships a beta-version of the client, 4.1.0-beta.2. Looking at the upstream release comment (GitHub) it has this to say: "This is Transmission 4.1.0-beta.2. We're not in feature freeze yet, so this release includes some new features as well as bugfixes and performance improvements." This creates an immediate problem for me: Unstable beta clients are not allowed on some torrent trackers. I'm not sure how to solve this, other than remove Debian's version and build a stable version from source. The second problem is: Are we now stuck with this beta version? Debian stable shouldn't have any feature changes, and Transmission explicitly says this can still happen before a stable 4.1.0. Traditionally Debian solves this by extracting bug-fix and security patches from upstream, but that means we're still reporting a beta version to the trackers. The best option for me would be an update to 4.1.0 proper when released, hoping that will be soon. -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.0 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.41+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages transmission depends on: ii transmission-common 4.1.0~beta2+dfsg-3 ii transmission-gtk 4.1.0~beta2+dfsg-3 transmission recommends no packages. transmission suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
