On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:18:12AM -0400, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > I've been asked by Tor developers if it would be possible to remove the > tor package (which is in universe) from future Ubuntu releases. The > software can (and should?) stay in the repository and in development > versions but should be released. > > Tor is anonymity software and routinely fixes bugs and implements new > features that work around problems that compromise users' anonymity. > The software's developers believe that is better to have no package at > all in a release than to have packages that are up to 18 months old and > which will, in all likelihood, provide users with a false sense of > anonymity. > > For Tor users on Ubuntu up-to-date versions for currently maintained > Ubuntu releases can be found here: > > http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorOnDebian > > Does this sound reasonable to folks?
We are of course willing to find a solution when an upstream project is not happy with the way their software is presented in Ubuntu. Removing the package would of course be straightforward, though I don't think we have a straightforward process for excluding packages from the release while keeping them in development. Surely it would be better to keep the package up-to-date in stable releases instead. We have some standing exceptions to the update policy which allow this. -- - mdz -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
