Niels Thykier wrote: > Source: bittorrent > Severity: serious This is priority inflation; lack of a maintainer or upstream is not in and of itself a release critical bug, although it certianly increases the likelyhood of a real one.
> It appears to me this package is being "NMU maintained". Furthermore > it seems that upstream has dropped support for Linux (I could only see > a Windows and a Mac download plus a uTorrent link). > > If you will want to maintainer this package, please write back reply > to this bug within 14 days. Otherwise I will assume you have lost > interest in it. As a torrent download client it's out of date, but the tools for manipulating torrent files are surely used by many things. For example, debian-cd uses btmakemetafile. bittornado also includes its versions of those tools. Making podracer and gnome-btdownload use bittornado instead would be a good step to getting rid of the bittorrent package. -- see shy jo
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