On 11/5/14, intrigeri <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > the feature/5379-remove-polipo branch builds upon the ones for #7416 > (proposed for 1.2.1), #6623 (proposed for 1.3) and #8194 (not > submitted formally yet), that configure the remaining Polipo users to > use the Tor SOCKS proxy instead. And it goes further, by removing all > traces of Polipo, thus achieving one of our goals for Tails 3.0. > > As indicated on #5379, it currently passes the revelant bits of our > automated test suite, but Totem is broken => #8219. > > So, in short, in order to complete the Polipo removal, we need to > upgrade to torsocks 2.x (#6880). Eight months ago, David Goulet has > reported about early tests on that ticket, but I haven't seen things > move since then. I suspect a run of our automatic test suite on an ISO > that ships torsocks 2.x might be a good next step, and could help > discover potential issues. > > Anyone wants to prepare a feature/6880-torsocks-2 branch that installs > torsocks 2.0 from wheezy-backports, and migrates its configuration > file accordingly? > > (Yeah, seems like I strongly needed to procrastinate and work on > something not urgent, for a change -- thankfully it seems useful :) >
I'm a fan of removing Polipo - I wonder - what will Tails users use for an HTTP proxy? Privoxy? Shim (which isn't freely licensed, sadly) or something else? All the best, Jacob _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
