gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

[F. Fox]

On 09/10/2010 01:05 AM, Sebastian Hahn 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.
>

Uh oh...

F. Fox
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