Cristian Consonni dijo [Wed, May 17, 2017 at 05:04:29PM +0200]:
AS you can see from the Debian package page[1] the latest available version of Tor packaged for Wheezy is 0.2.4.27-3, which to me looks quite behind either 0.2.5.12-4 available in Jessie (stable) or the 0.2.9.X series available through backports or testing.
What's the best to do in this cases?
- Should I start updating tor manually?
- Should I update Debian on the server? (which could well me start with
a fresh install?
- Is it ok like it is now, provided that the system is updated?
While Debian Wheezy (7, our "oldstable" release) still has security support via LTS¹, it is not recommended to run a Tor relay with such old packages. In fact, not even the version available in Jessie (8, our "stable" release - 0.2.5.12-4) is recommended nowadays.
I suggest you to update to _at least_ Jessie and use the version in backports (depends on your sysadmining, but if your machine's only use is to run a Tor node, I'd suggest installing Stretch, 9, which has 0.2.9.9-1).