tor removed from ubuntu jaunty

Brian Puccio brian at brianpuccio.net
Mon Apr 20 00:11:51 UTC 2009


On Apr 19, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote:

> Yep. You can read a lot more about it here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tor/+bug/328442
> and back from 2007 here:
> http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com/msg24404.html
>
> Ubuntu hardy and intrepid are still shipping known-remote-vulnerable
> versions of Tor. The version they have in Intrepid is even
> known-remote-root-vulnerable. And they still haven't gotten around to
> fixing it.
>
> If you're going to include Tor in your distribution, you really have
> to maintain it. Since Ubuntu doesn't maintain packages in its  
> Universe,
> it seemed like the smartest move to make sure we don't keep having  
> this
> problem with every new Ubuntu version.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU



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