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

Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Dec 2020 21:51:27 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID	<20201221205127.GA30790__4436.72019043646$1608584423$gmane$org@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal>

Hello James,
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 08:11:06PM +0000, James Frost wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for your overview. Then the "easy" fix is to simply update the
web page. Then peoply like me who haven't had any contact with those
clients know where to look (which to apt-get).

Thanks for your research.

Greetings

            Helge

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