[Mageia-dev] libtorrent / rtorrent versions, revert to stable?

[Jani Välimaa]

2012/3/7 Remco Rijnders <remco at webconquest.com>:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 05:27:26PM +0200, Anssi wrote in
> <4F577E5E.5080002 at mageia.org>:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> kharec updated our libtorrent to 0.13.0 two weeks ago. Wally updated
>> rtorrent shortly after that as they are released in pairs.
>>
>> However, 0.13.0 (and rtorrent 0.9.0) are the unstable versions, as per
>> http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/
>>
>> Stable ones are 0.12.9/0.8.9.
>>
>> I'm in favor of reverting back to the stable versions for mga2, but I'm
>> not insisting in it if other people disagree. Or is there are a specific
>> reason to have the unstable ones?
>>
>> And what do other people think?
>>
>> Stormi is the rtorrent pkg maintainer.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Stormi grabbed maintainership of this package at my request (as I'm his
> padawan). I'm also in favour of reverting to the previous stable version
> unless kharec or wally had strong movating reasons for making this change,
> but I didn't see it in their commit messages, nor do I see anything pressing
> on the rtorrent site after a quick glance.

I'm not against reverting to stable version. I only updated rtorrent
as libtorrent was updated earlier.

I did notice that new version is unstable version, but didn't think
more about it as I've been using unstable version (without any
problems) much longer than it's been available on our repo.