Re: [tor-relays] Tor version on Debian Wheezy (oldstable)

On Wed, 17 May 2017 18:36:12 -0400 Roger Dingledine arma@mit.edu wrote:

My guess is that our fine debian maintainer is leaving it at 0.2.9.10 while Stretch finishes its freeze and goes stable: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch

I don't mean packages in the Debian official repo, but those at deb.torproject.org. Surely those shouldn't have any dependence on Debian freeze/stable cycles.

Tor 0.2.9.x is our most recent long-term-stable release: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTorR...

So it is wiser to have 0.2.9 in the next Debian stable, rather than using 0.3.0 and then having Tor want to abandon 0.3.0 well before Stretch's expected lifetime.