Ktorrent Status/Replacement

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday, November 20, 2014 03:17:33 PM Harald Sitter wrote:
> fwiw if only we had a policy to deal with dead upstreams....
> 
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 2:37 PM, 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/
> 
> ^ that wouldn't be the qualifier on whether it suffers from dead upstream
> 
> > 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
> 
> ^ that wouldn't either
> 
> > 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.
> 
> ^ those wouldn't be the primary options
> 
> food for thought

JR fixed it, so it's not an immediate issue.

IMO it wasn't so much a dead upstream issue as a no longer works with Plasma 5 
issue.  The dead upstream just made that less likely to get better on its own.

Scott K