[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#700910: new upstream version (tag?) (maybe?) available

[Antoine Beaupré]

Source: bitcoin
Severity: wishlist

Okay okay... maybe i'm a bit over-enthusiastic about this, but it seems
that the 0.8.0 tag has been pushed to github.

I was able to compile the Debian package with minimal changes. One patch
needs to be dropped (1004_conservative_qt-dbus.patch), and otherwise
there doesn't seem to be significant changes for the package to build.

But I may be missing something. (e.g. maybe the patch wasn't factored in
upstream and instead just needs to be ported again.)

Anyways, I see numerous improvements over 0.7:

 1. bootstrap can be resumed, even when looking at a -loadblock
 2. the daemon is much more responsive (control-c works within a second
    instead of taking a random amount of time)
 3. data is committed to the database in regular bigger chunks instead
    of in zillions of small increments (which was killing performance
    badly for huge block imports)
 4. i can almost feel like I can bootstrap now (yay.)

(Sorry for the sarcasm, but I've been banging my head on this sucker for
the last 48 hours and i want to fix it. :P)

It is unclear to me whether the upgrade is transparent for users, as I
don't have a working setup to work with, but here it seems to migrated
fairly well.

I open this issue in a spirit of collaboration, to document the work I
have done here to upgrade to 0.8, not to request others to do the work
for me. :)

Thanks for the package,

A.

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Debian Release: 7.0
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