Seti@home is a distributed computing project using internet-connected computers for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (seti). it searches for possible evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence in radio transmissions collected by the arecibo radio telescope.

this package provide debug information. it comes handy when you have optimised the code of seti yourself and find it crash or be stuck in an infinite loop or you may be asked to install the package for some joint investigation with the seti core developers.