On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 05:04:29PM +0200, Cristian Consonni wrote:
I run a couple of relays with Debian 7 Wheezy, which is the old stable version.
Thanks for running relays!
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?
Definitely don't build Tor yourself. If you want to switch to the deb.torproject.org repo as suggested in this thread, that is a fine option.
- Should I update Debian on the server? (which could well me start with
a fresh install?
Tor 0.2.4.x is still supported until Aug 1, 2017: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTorR...
But it's my understanding that Debian wheezy becomes oldoldstable once Squeeze is declared stable? Meaning now would be a good time for you to consider upgrading anyway? :)
- Is it ok like it is now, provided that the system is updated?
It is ok like it is now, for the next 2.5 months, and then it will become a bad idea.
(Who knows, maybe the nice people who step in to offer long-term-stable support to Wheezy, if anybody does, will be convinceable to update it to Tor 0.2.5. But running a partially supported oldoldstable is less good than upgrading your Debian.)
--Roger