[SOLVED] Mr. Volkerding, Mr. Hameleers, there is no more GeoIP for KTorrent. Please, disable the support for it, both in -current and Plasma5!

What the title says, that's what I ask both of those gentlemen.

Today, there is no more support on that particular hosting for the GeoIP thing need by KTorrent, both for the one from KDE4 from -current and the one from the latest Plasma5.

That results in a nasty warning message when you start that application, either in standard -current or in a Plasma5 installation.

And I have the habit to run it always, then every time I start the computer, that GeoIP warning from KTorrent welcome me.

Let's wait for the KDE developers to resolve this the right way, by switching to GeoLite2: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403054

Mr Hameleers, that's a complete fair point regarding Plasma5 and the KTorrent version shipped by it. OK, let's wait for the KDE developers to do their job.

But I have serious doubts that those KTorrent updates will ever be backported to the version used by -current today and its KDE4.

Then at least on -current, I think that that GeoIP thing on KTorrent is as good as dead.

Originally Posted by LuckyCyborg But I have serious doubts that those KTorrent updates will ever be backported to the version used by -current today and its KDE4. Then at least on -current, I think that that GeoIP thing on KTorrent is as good as dead.

If only we had someone here who knows C++.

Originally Posted by volkerdi If only we had someone here who knows C++.

I've just started reading Stroustrup's P+P. Come back to me in 10 years' time if you're still looking for someone!

Originally Posted by Gerard Lally I've just started reading Stroustrup's P+P. Come back to me in 10 years' time if you're still looking for someone!

Great, so you're offering help for 16.2?

Originally Posted by volkerdi If only we had someone here who knows C++.

I thought I felt a tug on my leg.

Originally Posted by Richard Cranium I thought I felt a tug on my leg.

I have a feeling he was being sarcastic and talking about himself...

Originally Posted by bassmadrigal I have a feeling he was being sarcastic and talking about himself...

Well, that's why I thought he was pulling all of our legs. (I also think that quite a few Slackware users know a thing or two about C++.)

Originally Posted by Richard Cranium tug on my leg

Originally Posted by Richard Cranium pulling all of our legs

Aha! Now I get it I can be slow sometimes.

But, shouldn't be this thread marked as solved?

After all, Mr. Hameleers made a statement which was fully agreed by OP, and Mr. Volkerding on his -current side already patched the KTorrent to use a local copy of GeoIP database.