Re: [Tails-dev] Arbitrary DNS queries... and Tor 0.2.2.x

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Autor: Marco Calamari
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Para: The Tails public development discussion list
Asunto: Re: [Tails-dev] Arbitrary DNS queries... and Tor 0.2.2.x
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 12:22 +0200, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> alan@??? wrote (27 Jul 2011 07:36:55 GMT) :
> > I think it makes a lot of sense to actually switch the devel branch
> > to the current Tor beta version when it's available. By doing so, we
> > might notice bugs that other Tor users would not.
>
> Hrm... I'm not sure your proposal is taking into account that our
> devel branch is not an experimental playground, but rather something
> meant to become a Tails stable release at some point. According to
> this proposal, completed by the lines you wrote bellow, we would not
> be able to get a Tails major release out during the [ first beta,
> stable release ] time span, which does not seem reasonable to me.
>
> > In this particular case, I think it's a reasonable blocker to
> m> actually wait for the Tor project to declare the 0.2.2 branch as
> > stable before releasing Tails 0.8.


FroM a "concerned user" point of view, I totally agree to stick with
stable Tor branch.

Exception to this general rule can of course happen for serious reasons,
but the current one seems not enough important to me

JM2C. Keep up this good work! Marco