transmission-daemon 2.84-0.2 not working - Including crashes

[petermiller]

I tried to run transmission-daemon 2.84-0.2 on debian jessie, arm from deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie main

There are some issues I've noticed:
1. It can't be run as root user. I changed USER=root in /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon, but the process still runs as debian-transmission:

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$ ps aux | grep trans
debian-+   406  1.7  1.2  34316 10304 ?        Ssl  01:43   0:01 /usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --log-error
    

2. I get permission errors, even if permissions are correctly set:

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transmission-daemon[19963]: [2015-11-21 01:44:59.102 UTC] Couldn't open "/torrents/incomplete/ubuntu-14.10-desktop-i386.iso.part": Permission denied (fdlimit.c:370)

transmission-daemon[19963]: [2015-11-21 01:44:59.102 UTC] ubuntu-14.10-desktop-i386.iso tr_fdFileCheckout failed for "/torrents/incomplete/ubuntu-14.10-desktop-i386.iso.part": Permission denied (inout.c:101)
    

3. Sometimes the process crashes:

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systemd[1]: transmission-daemon.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV
    
systemd[1]: Unit transmission-daemon.service entered failed state.
    

4. Even when "autostart" is completely disabled (systemctl disable transmission-daemon, update-rc.d -f transmission-daemon remove) transmission is started. Don't know how this could work, but when ENABLE_DAEMON=0 in /etc/default/transmission-daemon it does no longer autostart..

Everything works fine with version 2.52-3+nmu2 from deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main.
All 3 issues described above work fine in 2.52... What's the problem?