Re: Trixie shipping an unstable beta version of Transmission

[Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I just noticed that the version of the Transmission torrent client included by Trixie is an unstable beta version (4.1.0-beta.2). Does anyone know why this decision was made, and if it means Transmission will get an upgrade to the actual release version later?
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> I'm surprised to see it in the stable release version. It's a pre-release version, not feature-stable, and thus there are now some trackers I can no longer use because they only allow actual releases.

Did some research on my own, and I guess my summary would be this:

- There was some important bug in the 4.0.6 stable version
- 4.0.7 were nowhere to be seen so 4.1.0 beta was deemed the better fix
- Transmission development was abandoned so 4.1.0 never got out of beta
- Meanwhile, 4.0.6 mostly works and is allowed on most trackers(?)

In the meantime I built 4.0.6+dfsg-3 from older sources and it works
as expected.