So instead of fixing the problems you had now you though it would be better to spend all your time creating new ones? The older version worked fine, except for some major issues conflicting with tor's design. The last major improvement you made to tails was anomymizing the mac address which was someone people had been complaining about for over a year. Thats all well and good, can you make tails to not undermine tor's design? Is that not a goal worthy of all your time?
-------- Original Message -------- From: intrigeri <[email protected]> Apparently from: [email protected] To: User support for Tails <[email protected]> Subject: [Tails-support] Why we migrated to Debian Wheezy [Was: ...] Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:04:25 +0200 > [email protected] wrote (10 Aug 2014 15:35:21 GMT) : > > [...] useless things like updating to a flashier and unncessary > > version of debian which seems to have consumed all of your time. > > Yes, migrating to Wheezy ate lots of our time. Not all of it, though, > as you can see in our past monthly reports. > > We've migrated to Wheezy mainly because: > > 1. Squeeze gets no security support anymore. We'll see how the Squeeze > LTS effort goes, but anyway it was confirmed way too late for us to > decide to stick with Squeeze, while we had made 80-90% of the > migration work already. > > 2. In the past few years, we've been spending way too much time > backporting stuff for Squeeze, or working around limitations in > packages shipped in Squeeze, that are fixed in Wheezy. I'm glad > we're spending way less time on such tasks right now, and can focus > on other important ones. > > 3. We're doing many things directly in Debian. For our efforts there > to be useful in Tails, we have to upgrade Tails to the latest > Debian release. > > 4. Wheezy gives us features that allowed improving the security of > Tails. See e.g. ticket #6172 and improved hardening build > flags coverage. > > 5. Compiling our web browser for Squeeze was getting more and more > painful, and eating more and more of our time. > > 6. [all the reasons I'm glad I forgot.] > > We'll migrate to Jessie for the very same reasons. > > In the future, please do try harder to understand why we spend time on > something, before loudly claiming that it's useless and we should > really do something else *now*. Oh, and "designed to be insecure". > Wow. Once you stop assuming bad faith, then we can have what I call > a conversation. > > Take care. > _______________________________________________ > tails-support mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to > [email protected]. _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
