[Popcon-developers] Bug#773663: Updated patch for popcon tor support

[Bill Allombert]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 12:03:52AM +0100, Tim Retout wrote:
> A few more things before you consider shipping this (sorry for not
> thinking of them before my previous email):
> 
> - torify is just a wrapper around torsocks.  The tor package might be
> installed but not running, or some people might have machines with
> torsocks configured to talk to a remote Tor daemon.  We should fall
> back at runtime if connecting via tor fails - this would probably even
> make the code clearer?
> - It would make sense to call the "--isolate" option in torsocks,
> otherwise this potentially identifies the tor circuit which the rest
> of your traffic is using, via e.g. the time of the cronjob, or at
> least highlights that it's a Debian system
> - I think the suggestion to have a separate default URL for tor
> submissions is a good one - if the HTTP default SUBMITURLS has not
> been changed, maybe switch to the tor one by default?  And then insert
> the .onion URL when DSA kindly set it up.

Thanks for moving forward with this. 

Woud you mind sending a popcon report through TOR and send me a
copy of /var/log/popularity-contest.gpg so that I can check the report
was received correctly ?

Cheers,
Bill.