I'd be happy to use such a patch upstream, since it dovetails with upstream ticket <http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/2070>.
Could you tweak the patch s.t. it decides whether or not to user third-party/libevent/ based on whether or not libevent 1.4x headers and libs are present on the system already? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org