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[Krzysztof Klimonda <kklimonda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: transmission
  
  Upstream, in order to fix http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/2505,
  has changed the way that settings.json file is saved (see
  http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3172 for details) and now it
  overwrites /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json symlink with
  the real file on both receiving HUP signal and exiting. After
  transmission-daemon is restarted users' changes made
  to /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json are going to be silently
  ignored.
  
  There are three possible fixes proposed in the upstream ticket, the last
  one does look like the safest route.
  
  Reporting on Launchpad to keep track of it for the possible SRU.
  
  TEST CASE:
  1) With transmission-daemon 1.92-0ubuntu2 installed do:
-     - make sure that daemon is running (sudo service transmission-daemon restart)
-     - run sudo killall -HUP transmission-daemon
-     - /var/lib/transmission-daemon/settings.json should become a normal file and not a symlink
- 2) purge package transmission-daemon (it will remove user configuration but there is no safe way of checking whether /var/lib/transmission-daemon/settings.json contains any changes made by user himself that are not in /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json)
+     - make sure that daemon is running (sudo service transmission-daemon restart)
+     - run sudo killall -HUP transmission-daemon
+     - /var/lib/transmission-daemon/settings.json should become a normal file and not a symlink
+ 2) purge package transmission-daemon (it will remove user configuration but there is no safe way of checking whether /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json contains any changes made by user himself that are not in /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json)
  3) install transmission-daemon 1.93-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
-     - run sudo killall -HUP transmission-daemon
-     - make sure that /var/lib/transmission-daemon/settings.json is a symlink to /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json and there are no errors related to transmission-deamon permission problems in /var/log/syslog
+     - run sudo killall -HUP transmission-daemon
+     - make sure that /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json is a symlink to /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json and there are no errors related to transmission-deamon permission problems in /var/log/syslog

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: transmission
  
  Upstream, in order to fix http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/2505,
  has changed the way that settings.json file is saved (see
  http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3172 for details) and now it
  overwrites /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json symlink with
  the real file on both receiving HUP signal and exiting. After
  transmission-daemon is restarted users' changes made
  to /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json are going to be silently
  ignored.
  
  There are three possible fixes proposed in the upstream ticket, the last
  one does look like the safest route.
  
  Reporting on Launchpad to keep track of it for the possible SRU.
  
  TEST CASE:
  1) With transmission-daemon 1.92-0ubuntu2 installed do:
      - make sure that daemon is running (sudo service transmission-daemon restart)
      - run sudo killall -HUP transmission-daemon
-     - /var/lib/transmission-daemon/settings.json should become a normal file and not a symlink
+     - /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json should become a normal file and not a symlink
  2) purge package transmission-daemon (it will remove user configuration but there is no safe way of checking whether /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json contains any changes made by user himself that are not in /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json)
  3) install transmission-daemon 1.93-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
      - run sudo killall -HUP transmission-daemon
      - make sure that /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json is a symlink to /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json and there are no errors related to transmission-deamon permission problems in /var/log/syslog

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transmission-daemon overwrites settings.json symlink
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571097
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