Bug#751977: pu: package tor

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

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