gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

[Sebastian Hahn]

On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Scott Bennett wrote:

>     On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:05:09 +0200 Sebastian Hahn <mail at sebastianhahn.net 
> >
> wrote:
>> On Sep 10, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Scott Bennett wrote:
>>
>>>    On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:39:44 -0400 Roger Dingledine  
>>> <arma at mit.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>> As I understand it, we changed no behavior except printing out a  
>>>> warn
>>>> for people who had multiple lines, to tell them that they're
>>>> expecting
>>>> behavior that they're not getting.
>>>
>>>    [extremely shocked pause...]
>>> 	.
>>> 	.
>>> 	.
>>>    Roger, please tell me that you're joking.  I have *never* had the
>>> understanding from reading the documentation in all of the years
>>> I've been
>>> using tor that only a single line of each type would be used.  How,
>>> then,
>>> are we to exclude all of the nodes that we find unacceptable for use
>>> in our
>>> own circuits?
>>>    If what you say is actually the case, then it would seem that a
>>> problem
>>> described on this list on many occasions during the last few years
>>> may, in
>>> fact, have been due to this horrible limitation.  Several of us have
>>> complained
>>> on numerous occasions that adding a node to one list or the other
>>> and sending
>>> SIGHUP to tor (or restarting it) failed to prevent that node from
>>> being used
>>> in the manner that we had expressly excluded.  If what you say is
>>> indeed the
>>> case, then it is a truly awful design bug.
>>
>> Yup, that's the actual behaviour. Good thing we added the warn,
>> otherwise
>> it might have gone unnoticed longer.
>>
>     Wow.  This is a scandalously bad situation.  Is there any chance
> that it will get a high priority for being corrected *soon*?  Please??

It is currently tracked as
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1929. Unfortunately
some of our scripts rely on the current behaviour, so just
changing it without carefully evaluating our current Tor
controllers isn't an option.

Sebastian
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