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

Some major BitTorrent clients now days are Deluge, qbittorrent, and 
Transmission, all of which are packaged in sid, and both deluge and 
transmission have CLI only versions. They are also all cross platform 
for people looking to download Debian on Windows or MacOS.

It is probably also worth considering tools like aria2, which provides a 
wget like interface for downloading of single files.

It would also not be amiss to move the latest BitTorrent files directly 
onto https://www.debian.org/distrib/ to improve there visibility.

On 21/12/2020 17:15, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> 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
>