[Popcon-developers] Bug#773663: Bug#773663: popularity-contest: Patch to enable Tor support

[ballombe@debian.org (Bill Allombert)]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 09:54:05AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:38 AM, Federico Ceratto wrote:
> 
> > Attaching the correct support_tor.diff   :(
> 
> I think it would be better to enable sending over Tor by default if
> the tor service is available on the local host. If the machine has Tor
> available there is probably no reason to not use it.

Hello Federico and Paul,

Would you mind writing a popcon FAQ entry <http://popcon.debian.org/FAQ>
to document this ?

Also woud you mind sending a popcon report through TOR and the send me a 
copy of /var/log/popularity-contest.gpg so that I can check the report
was received correctly ?

I have minor comments on your patch:

1) USETOR should use the same convention as ENCRYPT: yes/maybe/no instead of
always/auto/no

2) It is a bit awkward that USETOR depends on USEHTTP. It would seems more
orthogonal if USETOR was an alternative transport or applied to all other
transports, or an option for USEHTTP (e.g. USEHTTP=tor). 
I realize the interaction between all the piece is more complex than this
simple model.

I will probably not be able to add your patch to 1.62 but I will try to release
1.63 soon after.

Thanks for your contribution!
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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