[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#948312: Bug#948312: obfs4proxy: New upstream releasse

[Ulrike Uhlig]

On 07.01.20 10:14, Ulrike Uhlig wrote:
> On 07.01.20 00:57, Chris Lamb wrote:

>> There is a new upstream release of obfs4proxy available (at the time
>> of writing, 0.0.11):>> However, this will require the packaging of at least https://
>> gitlab.com/yawning/utls.
> 
> Quoting Ana Custura:
> 
> "
> We have 2 options going forward: we can package yawning's fork of uTLS
> or we can drop meek-lite support from the obfs4proxy package. We need to
> carefully consider this, as it is the only meek client currently
> packaged in Debian. I have built a package that drops meek-lite support
> (which is easily disabled) of version 0.0.11.
> 
> There are some licensing issues that need to be resolved with yawning's
> fork of uTLS [3] before we consider looking at packaging it.

Thinking about this a bit more I think it might also be worth asking Tor
(for example via irl at d.o or Philipp Winter, the lead of the censorship
team at Tor, https://nymity.ch/contact.txt) if they have a preferred way
of moving forward.

Tor seems to have had plans to help with the maintenance apparently:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29286

 -- ulrike