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

[Gunnar Wolf]

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).

¹ https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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