Ktorrent Status/Replacement

[Ralph Janke]

Never mind the issue about removal from default (I prefer to keep
kde apps as default), there are some other features, which other
torrent clients are better. As an example the blacklisting of IPs
is not very good/non-existing in Ktorrent. So it could use in
general some TLC.

-txwikinger


On 2014-11-18 16:46, Rick.Timmis wrote:
> Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Scott Kitterman
> <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>> Ktorrent is the current default torrent client that we provide in
> Kubuntu.
>> Now that we've transitioned to Plasma 5, it's no longer
> buildable/installable
>> in "Vivid".
>> 
>> The upstream web site is down: http://ktorrent.org/
>> 
>> I looked in KDE git and there's no sign of a KF5/Plasma 5 port:
>> 
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/network/ktorrent/repository
>> 
>> My conclusion is that ktorrent isn't an option for Vivid, so we
> either need to
>> stop shipping a torrent client or pick a different one. Since
> torrent is one
>> of the major distribution mechanisms for Kubuntu images, I think we
> should
>> continue to recommend a torrent client in Kubuntu Desktop.
>> 
>> I took a look at the currently packaged alternatives and qbittorrent
> seems
>> like the obvious choice. It's Qt based and is actively maintained in
> Debian
>> and upstream.
>> 
>> Anyone have other suggestions?
>> 
>> I'll probably go ahead and make this change shortly. We can always
> switch to
>> something else if we conclude there's a better option. Ktorrent
> being seeded
>> is one of the reasons the LiveFS builds are currently failing.
>> 
>> Scott K
> 
> I hope we can continue to ship Ktorrent. It is currently in queue to
> be "gardened" so some of the major bugs will be fixed, and a new
> release. Unfortunately, that doesn't get it ported. But at that point
> perhaps it will be in a state where a maintainer will step up.
> 
> I know this is a time of transition, and we might have to shuffle
> things up a bit. Currently, Ktorrent is working just fine for me in
> Plasma 5 on Utopic. I seed all the *buntu torrents.
> 
> Valorie
> 
> I am of the same mind as Valorie on this, I might even play with the
> idea of becoming a maintainer of Ktorrent.
> But I'd prefer to keep it
> 
> Rick Timmis
> 
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