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and subject line Bug#925198: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #894196,
regarding onioncat: Does not support Hidden Services v3
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Package: onioncat
Version: 0.2.2+svn569-2
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
OnionCat does not support "next generation" hidden services (v3).
IMO this makes OnionCat unsuitable for inclusion in Buster.
For details, see
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2018-March/044098.html
Taking a step back, I've added OnionCat to Debian in 2012 to provide
a building block for polished, higher-level, user-facing systems such
as peer-to-peer VoIP over Tor (thanks to OnionCat enabling UDP over
Tor). This could have broadened the scope of application of Tor
substantially but it's now clear that nobody picked up this challenge
(I certainly didn't). popcon is fairly low and has stopped increasing
~4 years ago. I see people working on other approaches to this
problem, such as Mumble in Tails Server and VoIP solutions that are
interoperable with other, already popular protocols (as opposed to an
OnionCat-based approach that is bound to connect OnionCat users only).
So I'm hereby stopping this experiment and plan to orphan this package
at some point. If someone has another strong motive to keep OnionCat
in Debian, you're much welcome to take it over, as part of the
pkg-privacy team or outside :)
Cheers,
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intrigeri
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Version: 0.2.2+svn569-2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package onioncat has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/925198
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
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