Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-anonymity-to...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Hi, as noted on #778699 (aka. "Vidalia should not be part of next Debian release"): Vidalia has been dead upstream for years, and has a crapload of bugs nobody will ever fix. The Tor Project is currently actively removing any reference to Vidalia from their website. We're not even sure if it's in good shape in Jessie, e.g. about what happens exactly on initial installation -- not sure it is configured properly to use the control socket as it should. Some people are happier with 0.3.x, but that one is itself alpha-quality software with another crapload of bugs that nobody will ever fix. Even Tails is going to ditch Vidalia soonish, and Tails is shipping its patched version anyway. Note that even Tails (2.0, based on Jessie) is going to stop including Vidalia, in favor of a WIP partial replacement called Tor Monitor, that is being packaged for Debian as we speak. Besides, Vidalia uses Qt4, that the Qt maintainers would like to drop, and there's no plan to port it to Qt5. Cheers, -- intrigeri
