Bug#977831: www.debian.org: Recommends bittorrent but Unstable/Testing no longer provide it

Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <20201221171509.GA20690__18772.0370756992$1608571105$gmane$org@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal>
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal

I wanted to download an CD image on my Testing system. I went to
www.debian.org, namely https://www.debian.org/distrib/. There I was
recommended to use the bittorrent image (previously I remember jigdo
or something simliar was used).

On the dedicated download page
https://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/index.en.html the following is
written:

You will need a BitTorrent client to download Debian CD/DVD images
this way. The Debian distribution includes BitTornado, KTorrent and
the original BitTorrent tools.

However, this is not true. BitTornado and the original BitTorrent
tools have been removed over a year ago from Sid (und Testing).
Requiring to install KDE just to download an image is a bit too much,
in my opinion.

So the text needs to be updated but more importantly a lightweight
toolset to download needs to be determined which is available in
Debian, preferrably on the command line for easier handling. 

(And sharing bandwith is a good idea, I'm willing to support this when
I can).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set

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