Bug#575895: maybe switch from transmission-gtk to something based on libtorrent, e.g. deluge-gtk?

[Charles Kerr]

> it seems that libtorrent (i.e. the rasterbar flavour) is becoming the
> de-facto standard bittorrent library under Linux

libtorrent-rasterbar is a good library, but I haven't seen any evidence
of it becoming the de-facto standard.  openSuSE recently switched to
Transmission from Monsoon.  Mint, Mandriva, and Crunchbang all switched to
Transmission from Deluge.

> furthermore, I've read but not yet confirmed that transmission clients
> are being blocked from some trackers, because of severe bugs in
> libtransmission.

You're probably referring to <http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/1242>.
What happened is that 1.90 and 1.91 were banned after 1.92 was released,
so that users would have an easy upgrade path.

A similar thing happened to Deluge and libtorrent-rasterbar -- your
suggested replacement -- when the same trackers banned
Deluge 1.2.0 and libtorrent 0.14.8 for an overdownloading bug.