Bug#1068436: transmission RFS
I use transmission constantly and would be happy to sponsor. In
principle of course: assuming there are no technical show-stoppers.
I already have my own fork on salsa.debian.org/bap/transmission with
some very minor tweaks.
In the meantime, I note that Sandro Tosi has dropped his
maintainership of the package, but pushed a debian/4.0.5-2 tag without
uploading. Do you know the status of that?
The two top bugs are a missing -latomic on ARM, which should be easy
enough to work around in debian/rules using
include /usr/share/dpkg/architecture.mk
if ...
and the prebuilt javascript business, which I note from MR/16 you've
been working on. One suggestion I have for that is to set things up so
that *if* the tools are available, the javascript can be rebuilt; but
if not, pre-built versions are used anyway. This would make things
robust, and would I think allow the bug to be downgraded.
I'm also not thrilled with how the build process adds a git hook if it
can. Should probably hot-wire that off, because it seems to present a
potential security issue. Just a quilt patch to disable the entire
if(GIT_FOUND) thing at the end of CMakeLists.txt seems about right.
(The Source Control System is supposed to control the build, not vice
versa!)
Anyway, let me know if/when you want me to dput.
Cheers,
--Barak.
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