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 <[email protected]> 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 -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
