Transmission will be the default torrent client from Hardy - including
UPnP support. (Released publicly in 2 days from now.) The feature is
very unlikely to be backported to be default in older releases.
** Changed in: bittorrent (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Fix Released
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Bittorrent
It might make sense for upstream gnome-btdownload to abandon the
official bittorrent as a backend considering BitTorrent upstream is now
a windows-only closed-source program (based on utorrent) and use
something else - libtorrent perhaps? I'm not sure, but there have to be
better backends.
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The handler for torrent files that is installed by default should just
work. That means it should use UPNP. This would benefit a lot of
users, and projects distributing large files (some games).
I am on Gutsy development right now, and the version of the installed
bittorrent package is
The blocker is that the license for the 4.x.x/5.x.x series of Bittorrent
are under a restrictive license with regards to mirroring and
distribution and other aspects, making it difficult for us to
redistribute it.
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Bittorrent should support UPnP
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35547
You
I should also add, with that said, it wouldn't be overly difficult to
implement UPnP abilities on top of gnome-btdownload, which might be
worth our interest to do and commit upstream.
Personally I'd love to see a standardized UPnP client that can be called
with Dbus which other apps can use too,
