[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#916889: Bug#916889: onionshare: recommends torbrowser-launcher in contrib

Ulrike Uhlig ulrike at debian.org
Fri Jan 4 18:57:00 GMT 2019


Hi John!

John Scott:
> On Friday, January 4, 2019 6:56:00 AM EST you wrote:
>> However, using TBB as onionshare's tor is an option using the GUI, so I
>> believe we could have it as a "suggests".
>> What do you think?
> Because OnionShare only needs one or the other but doesn't benefit from both, I 
> think the most ideal resolution is
> Recommends: tor | torbrowser-launcher

I now remember that you already mentioned this before and I forgot it,
sorry!

Good that you opened this bug report now to keep track :)

> so that tor is first choice, but torbrowser-launcher alone is sufficient too. tor 
> won't be installed if torbrowser-launcher already is.
> 
>> And tor itself should possibly be moved to "Recommends", if I follow my
>> own reasoning here. Because not necessarily needed by Onionshare to work.
> Yes, neither needs to be required in case one might want to use another Tor 
> instance, e.g. a client on the LAN having been configured to accept 
> connections.

Ack!

Happy new year,
u.



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