Surge on demand for some Debian 'netinst' ISOs on BitTorrent

[Felipe Maia <felipegmaia@protonmail.com>]

Dear Image/CD Team

I've been serving, through BitTorrent, all the 52 images (ISOs) of Debian 12.5 since one or two weeks after the release.

I've noticed a surge on demand for 4 'netinst' images on the last approximately 7 days. The images are (in the presented order):

- debian-12.5.0-arm64-netinst.iso
- debian-mac-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso
- debian-edu-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso
- debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso

These images were around the 10th to the 15th positions in demand. All the sudden, I've been having a very high demand for them, much more than I've seen for all these months. It's an increase of something like 10 fold. In these few days, they jumped to the first 4 positions in the ranking and are far beyond the former first place, which was 'debian-12.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso' as expected. The ranking order was quite stable for all these months until now.

I wonder if someone knows what's happening, if other people serving the images with BitTorrent are having the same experience, and if this phenomena is also happening with the images downloaded from the Debian Image Servers.

Cheers

Felipe Maia