BitTorrent package conflicts

[Corey Burger]

On 7/16/06, Steven Hazel <sah at bittorrent.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm the package maintainer for the BitTorrent .debs available at
> http://www.bittorrent.com/download.html
>
> My package has an unfortunate conflict: ubuntu-desktop depends on
> gnome-btdownload, which in turn requires the old 3.4.2 version of bittorrent
> which is currently in Ubuntu apt.  gnome-btdownload uses the python
> site-packages/BitTorrent files installed by the old bittorrent package as a
> library, and won't work with the substantially changed version in my new
> package.
>
> So there are two issues here:
>
> 1) Because of the way these package dependencies are set up, users wishing
> to install the new version of bittorrent would have to remove ubuntu-desktop
> (or dpkg --force conflicts, like I did).
>
> 2) gnome-btdownload and the new bittorrent package actually do conflict,
> they can't co-exist on the same system.
>
> I'm trying to work out the best way to resolve this situation.  What do you
> folks think?
>
> Also, I'd like to make the newer version of BitTorrent available in Ubuntu's
> apt system somewhere.  Where would I start?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Steven Hazel

The issue with a newer Bittorent is the new bittorrent license. Please
see these debian-legal discussions:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/03/msg00181.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/03/msg00581.html

Corey