On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM Alexandre Rossi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > 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. > > We did not anticipate this when we took this decision last january. > trixie will be stuck with this version. Last stable binaries are > available[1]. You can go back to this version and pin it. > > I'm taking note that it is a bad idea to include a beta transmission > version in stable. > > [1] http://snapshot.debian.org/package/transmission/4.0.6%2Bdfsg-3/ > > > The best option for me would be an update to 4.1.0 proper when released, > > hoping that will be soon. > > We surely will provide a backport the soonest after 4.1.0 is released. > No clear upstream timeline on this though... > > Happy to help you in any way you might need it. > > Alex
Thank you, after filing the bug report I did some research on my own and came to the same conclusion about what happened. In summary, development of Transmission ground to a halt for various reasons and there are a few threads about it in their issue tracker, with a lot of users and developers asking what's going on. Having a backported 4.1.0 stable would solve the situation for most people since backports are so easy to use. Thank you for linking to the binaries. I found the 4.0.6+dfsg-3 sources yesterday on another website, and built it successfully. I've used it for a while, but maybe I'd rather use the "official" binary packages.
