[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Onionshare new upstream version 0.9 - questions

[u]

Hi,

sorry for the really late reply.

Micah Lee:
> On 04/17/2016 01:42 PM, u wrote:
>> I've prepared a new package for version 0.9.
>>
>> However there are some small problems for which I would kindly request
>> some advice to fix them:
>>
>> 1. When building the package, there is a test suite which is run
>> automatically, but it fails with the following errors (I bypassed this
>> using "export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck" when I first built the package):
> 
> Eek, that's no good. It looks like the test are failing because of
> filesystem path problems. There must be a bug with finding the location
> of the locale folder.
> 
> I just opened an issue for this:
> https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/issues/284

Thanks!

>> 2. With the 0.9 package which I've built, running TorBrowser is still a
>> must.  I've tried using system tor instead simply by not running
>> Torbrowser. Then, running onionshare crashed Tor.
[..]
>> I think that's the same bug as:
>> https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/issues/267
>>
>> But I wonder, from https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7870#change-54921
>> I understood that the idea was to work with stem and system tor? Could
>> you confirm this? Or did I misunderstand?
> 
> As of 0.9, OnionShare only works with a system tor if the control port
> is open and there's no authentication. This is the case with the tor
> process that comes with Tor Browser, but the default torrc in debian
> doesn't listen on a control port.
> 
> But with ephemeral hidden services we're much closer. We just need to
> add support for control port authentication to OnionShare, and possibly
> also add some code that will offer to configure your torrc for you to
> make it work with system tor.

This makes me think that I'll wait for 0.9.1 to upload a new version.

Cheers!
u.