[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#909517: torify: does not expand shell aliases

[Hefee]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix

Hey,

upstream responded and closed 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torsocks/-/issues/40027#note_3169763

"I doubt most other tools supports this. Not a problem in torsocks."

Regards,

hefee

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On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 09:50:09 +0200 intrigeri <intrigeri at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 torsocks
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> (almost fully quoting for the torsocks maintainers' sake)
> 
> Jeff Cliff:
> > It is often handy to create shell aliases to do tasks that would otherwise 
require a lot
> > of retyping the same thing over and over.  For example 'git push' might 
very well be
> > aliased to 'push' at the shell level by 
> 
> > alias push='git push'
> 
> > then you could conceivably use 
> 
> >> torify push 
> 
> > as a shorthand for 
> 
> >> torify git push <git url>
> 
> > this however fails: torify does not expand the aliases and doesn't know 
what 'push' is.
> 
> Nowadays torify is a mere wrapper around torsocks ⇒ reassigning.
> 
> > As mentioned in the ubuntu downstream bug ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/
ubuntu/+source/tor/+bug/1687037 )
> > it doesn't matter what shell you use, torify just doesn't check.
> 
> > what happens: torify takes the arguments passed in without checking if 
there are aliases involved
> > what should happen: is torify should be alias-aware.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> intrigeri
> 
> 

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