On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:29 +0000, Ken Sharp wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > > All interest in debtorrent seems to have disappeared a long while > back. The mailing lists have fell silent and there isn't even a > tracker up any more, so it is effectively useless. > > Removing it will save poor saps like me time trying to work out why > the tracker is not responding.
CC'ing in Cameron Hi Ken, Thanks for logging this RM bug. I'm only a minor contributor to DebTorrent, and I'm sentimental about it, but I support RM'ing. It never got enough users to reach critical masss. The peak popcon of around 200 installs meant that most of the downloads went to the HTTP fallback (the normal Debian mirror system). Popcon: debtorrent: inst 145, vote 105 apt-transport-debtorrent: inst 169, vote 20 The 85 votes for debtorrent without apt-transport are probably running the client without actually using the service. The normal Debian mirror system is not going to feel any difference from those numbers. There might still be a use case for small projects that work with huge data packages and have their own repo, but it seems unlikely. And if they already have their own repository, they can include the DebTorrent .debs too; the current version will always be available (it's already in stable). Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
