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Cameron Dale (camrdale) wrote : Re: [Bug 256500] [NEW] cfv package recommends bittorrent | bittornado, not transmission

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Scott Wegner <email address hidden> wrote:
> I would recommend that these recommendations be removed, and perhaps
> replaced by transmission. Even better would be to link to a virtual
> package which is provided by each of these (i.e. "bittorrent-client"),
> although I don't think one currently exists.

This has been fixed in the latest version (1.18.2-1) in Debian, which
is available already in Intrepid. The fix used was to downgrade the
Recommends to a Suggests. For a good description of why it was needed
before see:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337796