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Bug 642808

Summary: net-p2p/biglybt: this is a fork of net-p2p/vuze (new package)
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: ta2002 <throw_away_2002>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: asturm, java, jstein, pacho, rhill, szymonscholz
Priority: Normal Keywords: PullRequest
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620404
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/28055
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=857663
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888948
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description ta2002 2017-12-31 08:01:57 UTC
https://www.biglybt.com/

Open source fork of vuze (the development of which has slowed significantly recently) by two of the original azureus/vuze developers.The project aims to continue to develop enhancements while returning to the basics by removing ads and bloated features.
Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2018-01-06 18:16:21 UTC
does the net-p2p/vuze ebuild work for biglybt too?

AUR ships biglybt
https://repology.org/metapackage/biglybt/versions
Comment 2 Szymon Scholz 2020-05-05 11:57:48 UTC
Digging... I like Vuze, Azureus, generally torrenting on Java. 

As Azureus project seems to be dying, no commits in 2 years[1] from now, latest release in late 2017. BiglyBT is very actively developed and enhanced version of Vuze/Azureus project with some bugfixes.

Old software may have security issues. Looks live a lot of developers has moved from Vuze to BigltBT[2].

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/azureus/mailman/azureus-commitlog/
[2] https://github.com/BiglySoftware/BiglyBT/graphs/code-frequency
Comment 3 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev 2021-05-04 09:56:09 UTC
Adding current net-p2p/vuze maintainer in CC.

Please consider switching to this new upstream, net-p2p/vuze is blocking swt:3.8 cleanup.
Comment 4 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2022-12-29 10:06:04 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=47a5cc8bbdf2799cc5cf9ef9e0093e87dabb15b8

commit 47a5cc8bbdf2799cc5cf9ef9e0093e87dabb15b8
Author:     Volkmar W. Pogatzki <gentoo@pogatzki.net>
AuthorDate: 2022-10-30 09:35:52 +0000
Commit:     Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-12-29 10:05:50 +0000

    net-p2p/biglybt: new package, add 3.2.0.0
    
    Intends to replase net-p2p/vuze,
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/642808
    Signed-off-by: Volkmar W. Pogatzki <gentoo@pogatzki.net>
    Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org>

 net-p2p/biglybt/Manifest               |   1 +
 net-p2p/biglybt/biglybt-3.2.0.0.ebuild | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 net-p2p/biglybt/metadata.xml           |   7 ++
 3 files changed, 121 insertions(+)