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  • 18/6/2025 torrent for debian image are dammaged

    From Gilbert TdW-cpm@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 17 17:50:01 2025
    18/6/2025

    Bonjour l'équipe débian,

    For month I tried to download a .torrent file at : https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-cd/debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso.torrent
    from the page :
    https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-cd/

    *** Lots of the torrents of your site are corrupted ***
    No antivirus even needed : everybody can see a 53Ko torrent file to be very suspicious.

    But not only that : all images I downloaded gave me same result : no one had a writen sha256sum matching the one calculated here.

    Sorry to be rude but is there someone managing that download site ? Sounds like a dead webmaster to me.

    Cordialement,

    Gilbert

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  • From Steve McIntyre@21:1/5 to Gilbert TdW-cpm on Tue Jun 17 18:30:01 2025
    Hi Gilbert,

    On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 05:30:18PM +0200, Gilbert TdW-cpm wrote:

    For month I tried to download a .torrent file at : >https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-cd/debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso.torrent
    from the page :
    https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-cd/

    *** Lots of the torrents of your site are corrupted ***
    No antivirus even needed : everybody can see a 53Ko torrent file to be very suspicious.

    But not only that : all images I downloaded gave me same result : no one had a writen sha256sum matching the one calculated here.

    Sorry to be rude but is there someone managing that download site ? Sounds like a dead webmaster to me.

    I've just used transmission and downloaded a correct copy of the
    netinst ISO using that torrent URL. I've verified it locally using
    sha256sum.

    I don't know what exact problems you're having, but as far as i can
    see all looks OK.

    --
    Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] 'Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
    to set it on, and I can move the world.'
    -- Steve Langasek

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  • From Steve McIntyre@21:1/5 to Gilbert TdW-cpm on Sat Jun 21 01:30:01 2025
    [ Please keep the CC to the debian-cd list - that's where discussion
    should be. ]

    Hey Gilbert,

    On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 09:42:31PM +0200, Gilbert TdW-cpm wrote:

    Thanks you for taking the time to check the problem, I know you're
    busy.

    You managed to download an iso image via torrent and the torrent came
    on the debian site : I knew that you're a computer Guru, but that's
    another proof ! Here the torrents were rejected by all the torrent
    software tried and I'm not surprised : looking inside I saw
    suspicious garbege. But as you managed, the trouble come from my
    side.

    *Which* torrent software packages did you try, and what errors did
    they report? More information would be helpful if you're reporting
    potential issues.

    A question at last : my common sense keep continue to worry about the >torrents size, do you think a 53k torrent to download an unique ISO
    to be normal ?

    Yes, it's perfectly fine. The data in a torrent file like this is just
    metadata about the ISO image - checksums, sizes etc. It doesn't need
    to be large.

    Also : the iso you downloaded had a crc or checksum that matched the
    one brought by the debian siteo n multiple iso's ? The only ISO that
    had correct crc or sum were the nightly ones, the standard ISO's on
    other parts of the debian site all brought me uncorrect checksums (I
    didn't tried the netinstal ones)..

    I specifically tested the netinst here, as that was the torrent you
    mentioned in your original mail. I've just tested another torrent at
    random (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/i386/bt-dvd/debian-12.11.0-i386-DVD-1.iso.torrent)
    and it also works just fine here.

    2ab1adf02f9f3b2c090d7f50d153c2da3a854bfcd52f551341a2129fe3a2894b debian-12.11.0-i386-DVD-1.iso

    Could you check the checksums of the torrent files you have too?
    Something is broken here, but I don't think it's the torrent files
    that we're publishing .

    --
    Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "I used to be the first kid on the block wanting a cranial implant,
    now I want to be the first with a cranial firewall. " -- Charlie Stross

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