ANNOUNCE: bittorrent downgrade

[Paul Howarth]

Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Once upon a time Thursday 01 March 2007, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> The bittorrent (and bittorrent-gui) package has been downgraded in the
>> Extras development repo from version 5.0.5 to 4.4.0, due to
>> compatibility problems between the GUI and wxPython 2.8.x
>> (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/223623). Since bittorrent upstream is still
>> doing development on wxPython 2.6, there is little prospect of a fix for
>> this before FC7 release, so the package has been downgraded to the last
>> version that had a working (pygtk2-based) GUI.
> 
> Why don't you add a compat-wxPython 2.6  if it works with that?  

The wxPython maintainer didn't think that a compat-wxPython26 package 
was a particularly good idea, and would prefer to try to get the 
wxPython 2.8 issues resolved instead:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-February/msg00633.html

Paul.