Using Debtorrent in frequently updated system

[Voker57]

On Saturday 19 January 2008 11:03:02 Cameron Dale wrote:
> If you do an 'apt-get update' and the archive has been updated, then
> DebTorrent will create a new torrent for you. Joining that new torrent
> means that you will disconnect from the old peers, and get new peers
> from the tracker to connect to. Seeds are only HTTP mirrors, so they
> are always there and will be connected to when needed. If by seeds you
> mean the packages that you've downloaded and are sharing with others,
> then those packages should still be available to share with others
> after the update (if they're still in the new version of the archive).
> If you're referring to the statistics shown by viewing DebTorrent in a
> web browser, then those get reset whenever a new torrent gets loaded.
> Making the statistics more permanent so they aren't erased by an
> apt-get update is on my todo list.
>
> Hopefully very soon, I will be releasing an updated version of
> DebTorrent that allows peers tracking testing/unstable to contact each
> other even if they're torrents are slightly different, so there will
> be many more peers available to download from. See this page for more
> info:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebTorrent/UniquePieces
>
> Thanks,
> Cameron

I meant to ask if some peer running debtorrent has some packages that have not 
been updated, in the older torrent, will they be still available to me after 
update?

BTW, am I using the mailing list in correct way? I haven't ever used a mailing 
list before.

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Voker57
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