Re: [Tails-dev] Package Tor Monitor

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Author: u
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Package Tor Monitor
Hi Sascha,

Sascha Steinbiss:
> Hi everyone,
>
>> > I would co-maintain this with nodens and if anyone on the list is
>> > interested.. i can do some handholding.
> I have been lurking on this ML for a while so I might just break my
> silence right now.
> I have done some Debian packaging in the Debian Med team, for now mainly
> working on bioinformatics software [1] but I would like to broaden my focus
> a bit. As I've always been interested in privacy enhancing technologies
> as well, I would like to help out with some additional packaging work if I
> have the time and given some priority advice (haven't looked at the bugs in
> pkg-anonymity-tools in detail yet).


Welcome!

> I'm a DM so you hopefully won't need to sponsor every single update after awhile ;)


> Long story short, there’s a first version of a tor-monitor package in:
> https://github.com/satta/tor-monitor


Awesome!

> It’s quite Debian-style (just build with git-buildpackage) — I am not sure
> whether you do things much differently in Tails. I can file an ITP if you
> want it in Debian as well. Looking forward to hear what you think.


In general, we tend to want to use Debian packages and maintain them in
Debian, rather than having them only in Tails.

So, yes, please file an ITP bug :)

What about hosting the packaging in collab-maint?

Cheers!
u.