FYI: python-libtorrent Upgrade Path Is deluge

[Peter Gordon]

Hi, all.

I've just committed deluge-0.5.0-2.fc7 to CVS (devel) and enqueued it to
the build system. This provides an upgrade path for python-libtorrent,
so things should be handled properly with an upgrade of FC-6 (which has
Deluge 0.4.x) to Fedora 7/Devel (which uses the 0.5 branch of Deluge).
Otherwise, python-libtorrent would be orphaned upon an upgrade (since
nothing would depend on it, and it is no longer maintained).

A little background for this: Deluge 0.4 made use of an external, much
more general-purpose, set of python bindings to the rb_libtorrent
library. However, the 0.5 branch of Deluge now implements this
functionality in its own deluge_core python module (which makes use of
the rb_libtorrent library, but tuned to benefit Deluge more in terms of
API and feature usage). Moreover, these external bindings were written
and maintained by the Deluge developers; and were meant to be used for
Deluge.

Although, at first I had envisioned getting the official rb_libtorrent
python bindings package to replace it, but I've set it up in the spec to
only Obsolete versions of python-libtorrent prior to 0.5 (which would
have been thee next major EVR bump had upstream released a new major
version). If we do decide to include the official bindings, these will
be of the same version as the upstream tarballs (at least the current
0.11 or 0.12-RC) and so will not be "upgraded" to Deluge.

If there are any related questions/comments/concerns/etc, please let me
know and I will do my best to address them.

Thanks.
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