Per a discussion on IRC, it'd be useful for people if they could download a parity file to try and fix broken downloads
PAR2 maybe?
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Per a discussion on IRC, it'd be useful for people if they could download a parity file to try and fix broken downloads
PAR2 maybe?
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
(In reply to comment #1)
http://www.par2.net/ for example
That address seems to be irrelevant now. par2 debian package exists but last upload is 4 years ago. http://packages.debian.org/par2 may link to a more recent URL for the project homepage but even that page says it's unmaintained.
The par2 website looks to have changed its contents a lot...
Usenet still uses PAR, and Wikipedia lists numerous pieces of software that implement it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive#Software
Most large dumps are produced in smaller downloadable files (more to be converted). Any more work on this would wait for the Dumps-Rewrite project to get under way, so declining.