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=== Wednesday 9th April 2008 ===

==== Fedora Project ====

''Finally'' found some time to look at the pile of bugs that have built up on `bittorrent`,
and apply some fixes. I guess the bugzilla triaging effort and yesterday's Final Freeze for
Fedora 9 were enough to spur me on. In additional to updating Rawhide, I cloned the package
for Fedora 7 and 8 and requested they be pushed to the testing repositories.

 * [[RedHatBugzilla:189072|Bug #189072]] (bittorrent doesn't die gracefully)
 . This one is about the GUI not saving fastresume data when the client is killed (e.g. when the user logs out) rather than shut down cleanly. Would need help from someone with better python skills to fix this. I've left the ticket open.
 * [[RedHatBugzilla:189295|Bug #189295]] (bittorrent is not utf-8 aware)
 . This one was raised on Fedora 6 and is about the curses client not displaying non-ASCII characters properly. This mainly affects non-English locales and as such doesn't manifest itself in Fedora 7 onwards because translations don't work at all ([[RedHatBugzilla:237254|Bug #237254]]). I've left this one open.
 * [[RedHatBugzilla:204622|Bug #204622]] (bittorrent takes an unreasonable amount of memory and has a memory leak)
 . I suspect that this was a bug elsewhere and in fact a duplicate of [[RedHatBugzilla:221124|Bug #221124]], where upgrading other packages fixed the problem. I've left the ticket open but it'll get closed as `WONTFIX` as part of the FedoraProject:BugZappers/F9CleanUp process if the reporter doesn't confirm that there's still a problem in a current release within the next month.
 * [[RedHatBugzilla:223623|Bug #223623]] (bittorrent-5.0.5 and wxPython-2.8)
 . This one is about the incompatibility of `bittorrent-gui` 5.x and `wxPython` > 2.6; all 5.x versions are affected by this (5.0.5 was in Rawhide briefly during the Fedora 7 development phase, where this problem first showed up). As upstream have gone closed source with version 6.x and nobody seems to be doing any ongoing development on the 5.x versions, I've closed this one as `CANTFIX`.
 * [[RedHatBugzilla:230878|Bug #230878]] (bittorrent-curses does not show upload activity and produces setrlimit message)
 . This was a problem that was present in `bittorrent` 5.0.5, which was briefly in Rawhide; since Fedora is highly unlikely ever to include a 5.x version again (see [[RedHatBugzilla:223623|Bug #223623]]), I closed this one as `CURRENTRELEASE` (it's not a problem in 4.4.0).
 * [[RedHatBugzilla:231697|Bug #231697]] (RPM install scripts don't create homedir for torrent user)
 . I fixed this one a year ago actually (`bittorrent-4.4.0-4.fc6`) but the ticket was still open so I closed it as `ERRATA`.
 * [[RedHatBugzilla:237254|Bug #237254]] (bittorrent-gui missing translations)
 . The translations provided by upstream don't work in Fedora 7 onwards, though they did in Fedora 6. Appears to be that something has changed in the way translations work in `python` 2.5 (Fedora 6 had `python` 2.4.x) and this has probably broken things. I've left this one open.
 * [[RedHatBugzilla:237256|Bug #237256]] (Error in about dialog)
 . This one crept in when downgrading Rawhide from 5.0.5 back to 4.4.0. The 5.0.5 version didn't include the `credits-l10n.txt` file, and I didn't add it back into the `%files` list for the package when downgrading, and this caused the problem. An easy fix - just include the file.
 * [[RedHatBugzilla:245421|Bug #245421]] (bittorrent fastresume does not work (because of python incompatibility?))
 . A `python` 2.5 compatibility issue that caused the fastresume data not to be saved correctly. Somebody kindly included a reference to a fix for this on the ticket, so it was an easy fix with a small patch, and I changed the bug status to `ON_QA` after requesting the updates for Fedora 7 and 8 be pushed to the testing repository.
 * [[RedHatBugzilla:365361|Bug #365361]] (bittorrent: use xdg-open for opening a browser)
 . This was one of a series of bugs opened against various applications to get them to use `xdg-open` to open the user's chosen browser rather than doing it in an application-specific way. However, `bittorrent` already hands over this choice to the `webbrowser` module in `python`, so I closed the bug as a `DUPLICATE` of [[RedHatBugzilla:388531|Bug #388531]], the corresponding ticket for `python` itself.
 * [[RedHatBugzilla:440906|Bug #440906]] (FTBFS bittorrent-4.4.0-5.fc7)
 . The Rawhide `bittorrent` package wasn't building successfully because python-based packages in Fedora 9 onwards now include `egg-info` data, and that wasn't accounted for in the `%files` list for the package. Another easy fix; as this was a Rawhide bug, I was able to close it as `RAWHIDE` once the package was built in koji.
 * [[RedHatBugzilla:430849|Bug #430849]] (bittorrent track/generate/seed fails, and documents do not help)
 . This one was about the documentation for creating torrents and running the seed/tracker services, which consisted of upstream's `README.txt` and was clearly inadequate (and in fact wrong in some parts). I added an additional file `README.Fedora` to improve the situation and changed the bug status to `ON_QA` after requesting the updates for Fedora 7 and 8 be pushed to the testing repository.

In addition to those bugs, I also moved the default data directory out of `/srv` to `/var/lib/bittorrent` because Fedora policy is not to include anything under `/srv` in packages (see FedoraProject:PackagingDrafts/NoBitsInSrv), and also silenced some "deprecated function" warnings
that originated from pygtk2.

I also managed to get the updated Rawhide package included in Fedora 9 Final despite missing the Final Freeze date, by making a successful appeal to the Fedora Release Engineering team :-)

A busy day!

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