Ktorrent Status/Replacement

[Harald Sitter]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> 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.

my point is that there is no dead upstream, as no one tried to talk to
upstream (nor brought it to the attention of the large kde developer
community).