[Pkg-anonymity-tools] [onionshare] 05/05: make tor a dependency and make it work in Debian.

[Micah Lee]

On 05/19/2015 08:42 PM, intrigeri wrote:
>> -Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, python-flask, python-stem, python-qt4
>> -Recommends: tor
>> +Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, python-flask, python-stem, python-qt4, tor
>>  Suggests: torbrowser-launcher
> On second thought, I wonder (sorry, I should have thought of that
> earlier today) -- assuming onionshare works, or can be made to work,
> with the default Tor configuration in Debian, perhaps we should make
> it Depends: tor | torbrowser-launcher? So that people who already have
> torbrowser-launcher installed, but not tor, won't have to run a second
> instance of tor, and vice-versa. Not sure if/how it affects being able
> to move onionshare to main, but I suspect this might not be a problem
> as long as the first listed dependency is itself in main.
>

In order for OnionShare to be made to work with the default Tor
configuration in Debian, this issue [1] needs to get solved. But I have
hopes that a future release of Tor will let users retrieve the .onion
hostname through the control port, rather than needing to read a file
from the filesystem that's only readably by debian-tor [2].

So, when one of those two things happens, OnionShare can work with the
system Tor and not require Tor Browser.

[1] https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/issues/130
[2] https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/issues/178

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Micah Lee
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