Source: apt-dht
Section: net
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Cameron Dale <camrdale@gmail.com>
Homepage: http://www.camrdale.org/apt-dht.html
Standards-Version: 3.7.3
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.37.2)
Build-Depends-Indep: python-dev, python-support (>= 0.5.4), docbook-to-man
Vcs-Git: git://git.camrdale.org/git/apt-dht.git
Vcs-Browser: http://git.camrdale.org/?p=apt-dht.git;a=summary
XS-Dm-Upload-Allowed: yes

Package: apt-dht
Architecture: all
Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-twisted-web2 (>= 0.2), adduser, python-debian (>= 0.1.4), python-apt (>= 0.6.20), python-pysqlite2 (>= 2.1)
Provides: python-apt-dht, python-apt-dht-khashmir
Description: apt helper for peer-to-peer downloads of Debian packages
 Apt-DHT is a helper for downloading Debian packages files with APT.
 It will download any needed files from other Apt-DHT peers in a
 bittorrent-like manner, and so reduce the strain on the Debian mirrors.
 .
 The Apt-DHT daemon runs automatically on startup and listens for
 requests from APT for files, as well as maintaining membership in a
 Distributed Hash Table (DHT). For any files which have a hash
 available (most files), peers that have the file are looked for in the
 DHT. The file can then be downloaded from them, using the uploading
 bandwidth of other peers while reducing the demand on the Debian mirror
 network. However, if a package cannot be found on any peers, Apt-DHT
 will fall back to downloading from a mirror to ensure all packages are
 downloaded. Once downloaded, the file is hash checked and added to the
 DHT so that other peers can download it without the mirror.
 .
 The configuration is very simple, and only involves prepending
 'localhost' and the port to your current sources.list lines (similar
 to other apt-proxy-like software).