Re: Trixie shipping an unstable beta version of Transmission

[Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 01:40:10AM +0200, Anders Andersson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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.
 

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Geert Stappers
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