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    Revert "Release process: unite BitTorrent download folders" (Closes: #16902) · e0fa8b82
    intrigeri authored
    Giving both Torrents the same name has problematic side effects.
    
    For example, if someone downloads both Torrents at the same time (USB image +
    ISO):
    
     - The UI in a Bittorrent client does not allow to tell, at a glance, which
       is which.
     - If they use a BitTorrent client configured to download first to a temporary
       folder and then move the downloaded files elsewhere (e.g. kibi tells me most
       documentations for rtorrent recommend that), then when the 1st Torrent
       download completes, it breaks the 2nd one, deleting all files that were
       partially downloaded already.
    
    So let's revert to having the Torrents download directories whose
    names end respectively with -iso and -img.
    
    This reverts most of commit a8964667, except the
    part that got rid of permanent -iso and -img folders on the RM's filesystem,
    which I assume is what made anonym unhappy with my initial implementation.
    
    I've tried to salvage the hotfixes kibi and I had to do at release time, to fix
    issues introduced by me while I did the first part of #16902 and later by anonym
    in a89646.
    
    I'll be the first one to go through the updated doc when I'll prepare 4.0~rc1
    and 4.0, so I'll have the opportunity to notice and fix any breakage introduced
    by this commit before it affects anyone else.
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