Control: tags -1 + confirmed
On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 14:45 +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> I propose to update Tor in stable to the version that is now in jessie.
>
> This would be a jump to the next major version of tor, not just a
> patch release update.
[...]
> | And indeed, we're basically done backporting fixes to 0.2.3. For
> | anything short of a remote overflow, we're probably not fixing
> | it.
[...]
> I don't expect the hand-full of reverse dependencies would have any
> problems with the version jump, and from a relay-operator or end-user
> point of view not much directly visible has changed.
>
> The default contents of the /etc/tor/torrc conffile have changed
> slightly. (In fact, the diff is so tiny - one date change and one
> typo fix in comments - that we could consider reverting that change
> to cut down on dpkg propmts if you prefer.) Existing configuration
> files are expected to continue to work in all cases.
If it's common for users to modify torrc, that would be good.
> Is this update something we can do?
Given your comments and the others expressed in the thread, I think we
{c,sh}ould. I'm assuming that the backports build means the new codebase
has had at least some testing in wheezy environments.
Please go ahead, presumably as 0.2.4.22-1~deb7u1.
Regards,
Adam
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