[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#1008164: RM: obfs4proxy/0.0.8-1

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

Hi,

Ping on this? Adding the maintenance list as well.

Thanks.

On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 11:05:52PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> Am Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 08:05:29AM +0100 schrieb Jonathan Wiltshire:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 07:36:12PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > Control: retitle -1 RM: obfs4proxy -- RoM; security issues
> > > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2022-03-26 at 21:21 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > > > Control: tag -1 bullseye
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Ana,
> > > > 
> > > > On 23-03-2022 13:13, Ana Custura wrote:
> > > > > Opening this bug after a recomendation from debian-security.
> > > > > Version 0.0.8 of obfs4proxy has a security bug, which has only been
> > > > > fixed in a later
> > > > > version (0.0.13, see bug number #1004374), and also suffers from
> > > > > incompatibilty issues
> > > > > with later versions of the package. Version 0.0.13 is already in
> > > > > bullseye-backports.
> > > > 
> > > > So this want's removal from bullseye, setting the right tag to have
> > > > it on the radar of the SRM.
> > > 
> > > obfs4proxy has a reverse-dependency in bullseye:
> > > 
> > > Checking reverse dependencies...
> > > # Broken Depends:
> > > onionshare: onionshare
> > > 
> > > Dependency problem found.
> > 
> > This remains unresolved - obfs4proxy cannot be removed while onionshare
> > depends on it. Security team - is removal your recommendation? How can the
> > dependency be resolved?
> 
> Let's add the onionshare maintainer to CC.
> 
> In #1004375 onionshare demoted the dependency on obfs4proxy to a Recommends,
> can we apply the same to onionshare 2.2 from Bullseye?
> 
> Cheers,
>         Moritz

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