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Look at implementing some sort of parity files that can be downloaded
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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

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bz27729

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:24 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz27729.

(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

Nemo_bis changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Apr 9 2015, 7:31 AM
Nemo_bis lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.
Nemo_bis set Security to None.

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.