[tor-talk] Should Whonix ship Tor 0.2.3 or 0.2.4?

[Nick Mathewson]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Lunar <lunar at torproject.org> wrote:
> adrelanos:
>> I could temporarily add experimental-jessie during the build process
>> and after installing Tor, reset it to jessie. That doesn't seem like a
>> good idea, because when experimental-jessie gets a security update,
>> chances are bad, that this security update also comes through the
>> jessie repository. As long as the Tor version in the jessi repository
>> wouldn't be higher than the installed on.
>
> Hopefully, that will happen soon. When tor 0.2.4 will be blessed as
> stable, weasel will push it to the stable suites (jessie in your case).
>
> As far as I understood, what is really missing at this point to declare
> 0.2.4 stable was the release notes. It's more work than one can imagine.
> Roger said he already started working on them.

I concur that there should be as many 0.2.4.x deployments as possible.
New 0.2.3 installations are not IMO a great idea.

-- 
Nick