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[Peter Palfrader <weasel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

[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
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Status in “tor” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
 tor  (0.2.1.19-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
     - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right (closes: #538960).
     [More items are in the upstream changelog.]

 -- Peter Palfrader <weasel@xxxxxxxxxx>  Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:49:03 +0200