Re: Tor 0.4.2.5
Yes, thank you. If a v.0.4.2.5-2 won’t be packaged in Debian just for this patch I’ll wait for the next upstream release to hit the testing repo.
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> Il giorno 6 gen 2020, alle ore 21:57, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
> On Lu, 06 ian 20, 20:51:04, Mario Costa wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Looks like a fix has been provided upstream. I’m not familiar with the
>> specific Debian policy, will the patch be backported to the current
>> version or do we need to wait for the next stable release in order to
>> have the package in buster-backports?
>
> Patches fixing security bugs and important bugs are acceptable for
> stable (currently "buster").
>
> Packages in buster-backports are versions from the testing release (the
> branch where the next release "bullseye" is prepared) recompiled to work
> on stable.
>
> If the patches are not acceptable for a stable update than the package
> must be updated in testing first and then backported.
>
> Hope this explains,
> Andrei
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