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FS#27278 - [bittorrent] cannot download sources

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Sunday, 27 November 2011, 22:33 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Monday, 20 February 2012, 20:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
==> Retrieving Sources...
-> Downloading BitTorrent-5.2.2.tar.gz...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading BitTorrent-5.2.2.tar.gz

Additional info:
* bittorrent 5.2.2-4

Steps to reproduce:
Try to build it.
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Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Monday, 20 February 2012, 20:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  Package removed
Comment by Kevin (anonymous_user) - Monday, 28 November 2011, 05:36 GMT
http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/archive/ seems to only have DEB and RPM packages now (Linux).
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Monday, 28 November 2011, 09:40 GMT
We should remove it.

Quoting from the Fedora ML:

I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over instead, please apply on the package database and I'll transfer ownership. Think carefully before you act though!

Dead Upstream:
==============
Well, not actually dead but upstream has gone closed-source as of version 6 so it's effectively dead.

Old Version:
============
Upstream's last open-source release (code dump really) was 5.3 (http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/), which was little more than a GPL re-licensing of 5.2.2 and a dump of upstream VCS content. Fedora has been stuck with 4.4.0 though with its PyGTK GUI because the "new" GUI in version 5 was a rewrite with wxGTK but it didn't work with wxGTK > 2.6 (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/223623) and so was unusable in Fedora.
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Monday, 30 January 2012, 17:24 GMT

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