[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] txtorcon is marked for autoremoval from testing

[meejah]

Alternatively, is it possible to depend on tor-geoipdb instead?
Or does this package suffer the same problem?

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/tor-geoipdb

On Tue, 26 May 2026, at 12:52, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> Hi meejah,
>
> thanks for your quick reply.
>
>> Yes, removing geo-ip as a dependency is fine. There have been other
>> issues with this in the past, and as you point out it's optional
>> anyway.
>
> Good to know. I will prepare an upload then, since this is a LowNMU as
> well as team-maintained package.
>
>> Would it help if I made an upstream release without this
>> functionality?
> As far as Debian is concerned, it is not required as we can just remove
> the dependency in our packaging code.
> But removing it from the release will help to make it clear that this
> feature is probably not to be relied upon due to the nature of the
> licensing issue.
>
> Thanks again and best regards
> Sascha
>
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