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Summary

This blueprint proposes a small package of tools that will help people that use or create torrent files using Ubuntu.

Release Note

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It is mandatory.

Rationale

There is currently no package in Ubuntu that gives you tools which can aid the creation, use and modification of bit-torrent files. As bit-torrent becomes more wide-spread it would be useful to have a collection of tools to help with this.

Use Cases

Assumptions

Design

torrent-tools would be a small debian package consisting of several tools. These should all be command line based.

mktorrent - A script which allows you to create torrents

torrent-info - A script which lists torrent meta-data like the files included and trackers referenced in the file.

seeders - A script which queries a torrents tracker for the amount of seeders and leechers

Implementation

This should be implemented in a scripting language like Python to easily allow people to customise the tools for their own specific needs. All of the scripts should be based around the same library.


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