On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:42:18PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > > So how do I make people aware of the option? > > In my humble opinion your package shall be pushed to Debian and Ubuntu > (or at least to deb.torproject.org) before user awareness is the top > priority. Rationale: I'm not a fan of recommending users to install > .deb from any random online repository (no offense intended); trusting > a given APT source almost equals trusting this repository's admins and > package maintainers to be root on your system. Makes sense. I'd like to get it in the torproject.org repo, but I'm not sure how. Per Andrew's suggestion, I opened a trac.torproject.org ticket to ask for someone to help me get it in there. I am unsure of whether it should be in the debian repo, since the dependencies aren't even in there yet. However, I could try and see what they think. > I don't think pushing this package to Debian and Ubuntu is that hard > and I suggest the following process: > > 0. If not done yet, compare the default polipo configuration you are > shipping with the Tor Browser Bundle's and T(A)ILS' ones, just to > make sure no privacy/anonymity-related option was missed. Good point, will do. > 1. Make sure your package is in good enough shape so that it can be > included in Debian (=> Debian users can use it as well, and Ubuntu > will fetch it from there in a few months). I mean checking the > Debian Policy compliance, making sure it is Lintian-clean, etc. I uploaded it to debian-mentors and it checks out fine now (as of version 1.4) > 2. Fill a Request For Package (RFP) bug in the Debian BTS [0] so that > any Tor-friendly Debian developer is aware of your work and can > decide to upload your package into Debian. Is this related, parallel, a superset or a subset of the debian-mentors RFS process? I could go through that, but haven't flagged this package as needing sponsorship yet since the tor packages themselves aren't in the debian repo. -- Effing the ineffable since 1997. | http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/ My emails do not usually have attachments; it's a digital signature that your mail program doesn't understand. If you are a spammer, please email john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to get blacklisted.
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