transmission-daemon overwrites settings.json symlink

Raising Importance as the bug is affecting all transmission-daemon users. I'd say it's a perfect candidate for the SRU if we can get a clear fix.

This bug was fixed in the package transmission - 1.93-2ubuntu1

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transmission (1.93-2ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #574435), remaining changes:
    - debian/control:
      + Added liblaunchpad-integration-dev and lsb-release to Build-Depends
    - debian/rules:
      + create a po template during package build.
    - debian/patches/01_lpi.patch:
      + integrate transmission with launchpad
    - debian/patches/20_add_x-ubuntu-gettext-domain.diff:
      + add x-ubuntu-gettext-domain to .desktop file.
    - debian/control, debian/rules:
      + build transmission gtk+ client with both gconf and libcanberra support.
    - debian/patches/dont_build_libevent.patch:
      + disable libevent in configure.ac and Makefile.am because we use autotools
        to regenerate build files.
    - debian/patches/updateminiupnpcstrings_double_escape_slash.patch:
      + Deleted as the bug is fixed upstream
  * Fixes bugs:
    - Fix a bug in transmission-daemon that caused it to overwrite symlink to
      settings.json and in the result ignore changes made to
      /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json (LP: #571097)
    - A fix for LP #542194 disabled rpc in transmission-daemon by default. Make
      it enabled for new users (LP: #571739)
  * Refreshed 99_autoreconf.patch
 -- Krzysztof Klimonda <email address hidden> Sun, 16 May 2010 21:20:39 +0200

Accepted transmission into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

transmission-cli and transmission-deamon 1.93 from -Proposed appear to have fixed this problem.

# egrep "(password|username)" /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
     "proxy-auth-password": "",
     "proxy-auth-username": "",
     "rpc-password": "{6ac7........................................GxD/",
     "rpc-username": "transmission",

No permissions problems observed in /var/log/syslog

/var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json is a true symlink to /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

This bug was fixed in the package transmission - 1.93-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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transmission (1.93-0ubuntu0.10.04.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #574435), fixes bugs:
  * debian/patches/follow_symlinks.patch
    - Fix a bug in transmission-daemon that caused it to overwrite symlink to
      settings.json and in the result ignore changes made to
      /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json (LP: #571097)
  * debian/patches/enable_rpc_by_default.patch
    - A fix for LP #542194 disabled rpc in transmission-daemon by default. Make
      it enabled for new users (LP: #571739)
  * debian/transmission-daemon.{postinst,postrm}:
    - Fix permissions for /etc/transmission-daemon/ directory.
  * Refreshed 99_autoreconf.patch
 -- Krzysztof Klimonda <email address hidden> Sun, 16 May 2010 20:32:16 +0200