Proposing Transmission BitTorrent client as default

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Andrea Veri wrote:
> Flávio Martins ha scritto:
> |  "Transmission is a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client
> | with a focus on being lightweight yet feature-filled."
> |
> | I propose we replace, in the default installation, the packages
> | gnome-btdownload with transmission-gtk.
> 
> Did you check some popcon statistics between the use of Gnome-bt and 
> transmission in both Debian [1] and Ubuntu [2]?

That's not fair, as gnome-btdownload is installed by default  :)

Cheers,
Emilio

> Plus, as Sebastien 
> pointed out, what's wrong with the current gnome-btdownload package?
> 
> 
> [1] Transmission: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=transmission and
> ~      Gnome-bt: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=gnome-btdownload
> [2]  http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_inst (search the packages by hand)

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