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Bug#745259: ITP: apt-transport-tor -- APT transport for anonymous package downloads via Tor



On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:50:32PM +0100, Tim Retout wrote:
> This software works!  It was forked from the apt HTTPS transport.  It doesn't
> yet have a build system or any packaging, but hopefully that's the easy part.

It is also such a trivial modification¹ that I wonder why a fork is
needed as the required metadata will easily exceed the code changes.
Just provide a patch which does those settings based on the name of
the binary called, like apt is handling it for its gzip/bzip2/lzma/xz
methods and be done with it forever instead of maintaining a fork.
Or even better just add SOCKS proxy support to the existing methods…


Where does it lead us to, when DDs prefer to do forks of Debian native
packages? I am bit scared of the answer…
(it explains though why my apt3 in brainfuck is going nowhere. ;) )


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

¹  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
   before s/https/tor/ was done yesterday. I wonder why curl is
   forbidden to redirect from http to https in this commit btw.
   At least we have a bigger diff this way, I guess…

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