Re: Trixie shipping an unstable beta version of Transmission
Anders Andersson (HE12025-08-13):
> 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.
Normally, alpha = feature-stable but may contain bugs, beta =
feature-stable and probably not many bugs left.
Can you elaborate on trackers? Do they check the exact version? The
presence of “beta” in the version string?
> - There was some important bug in the 4.0.6 stable version
Do you remember what bug? Security? File corruptions? Specific to an
architecture?
> - Transmission development was abandoned so 4.1.0 never got out of beta
Sad news. Anybody know the options to replace it eventually?
> In the meantime I built 4.0.6+dfsg-3 from older sources and it works
> as expected.
A patch on the installed binary is also an option. I confess, I do that
to reduce the font sizes.
Regards,
--
Nicolas George
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