[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#817086: Bug#817086: clicking on circuits doesn't show any info

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Dear Paul,

thanks for the bug report.

> When I click on circuits onioncircuits doesn't show any info and I get
> this traceback in the terminal.
[…]
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stem/response/getinfo.py", line 40, in _parse_message
>     raise stem.ProtocolError("GETINFO response didn't have an OK status:\n%s" % self)
> stem.ProtocolError: GETINFO response didn't have an OK status:
> GeoIP data not loaded

It looks like you chose not to install tor’s recommended tor-geoipdb package. I can reproduce this issue if I manually remove tor-geoipdb on my system. Making tor-geoipdb (and hence tor itself) a dependency of onioncircuits would remedy this, but I feel that it might be worthwhile to make onioncircuits itself a bit more robust if geoipdb is missing. 
I have created a patch to check for this error (see attached) and will forward it upstream.
Also, I’ll make onioncircuits suggest tor-geoipdb. Any comments?

Cheers
Sascha

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