[I'm not talking for the Tor folks here; this is my own opinion.] I think the primary concern of upstream is that users get current Tor versions when they ask for Tor. Historically that has been a problem in Ubuntu, where users apt-get installed (or whatever the shiney equivalent for that is nowadays) tor and were left with an old and not very well working tor without ever knowing it.
If Ubuntu can manage to keep their Tor package reasonably current in all supported releases then I guess that having tor packages in Ubuntu would be just fine with the Tor people. (I don't really buy the entire "signed by a trusted key"-argument. It might apply to random third party repositories, but I don't think it is all that strong for the OS's own repositories. If the OS wants to own me I already lose, regardless of whether I get Tor from the place with the special fairy-dust or not.) It has been suggested that I maintain the tor package in Ubuntu, but I don't think that's such a great idea. I know too little about Ubuntu's internal workings and communication channels to be effective. However, I'm quite willing to help any Ubuntu person who wants to bring Tor back to Ubuntu should they have specific questions, etc. Cheers, weasel -- Please sync tor 0.2.1.19-1 (universe) from Debian testing (main) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/413657 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
