Author: Jacob Appelbaum Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Removing Polipo (and upgrading to torsocks 2.x):
progress report
On 11/5/14, intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote: > Hi,
>
> the feature/5379-remove-polipo branch builds upon the ones for #7416
> (proposed for 1.2.1), #6623 (proposed for 1.3) and #8194 (not
> submitted formally yet), that configure the remaining Polipo users to
> use the Tor SOCKS proxy instead. And it goes further, by removing all
> traces of Polipo, thus achieving one of our goals for Tails 3.0.
>
> As indicated on #5379, it currently passes the revelant bits of our
> automated test suite, but Totem is broken => #8219.
>
> So, in short, in order to complete the Polipo removal, we need to
> upgrade to torsocks 2.x (#6880). Eight months ago, David Goulet has
> reported about early tests on that ticket, but I haven't seen things
> move since then. I suspect a run of our automatic test suite on an ISO
> that ships torsocks 2.x might be a good next step, and could help
> discover potential issues.
>
> Anyone wants to prepare a feature/6880-torsocks-2 branch that installs
> torsocks 2.0 from wheezy-backports, and migrates its configuration
> file accordingly?
>
> (Yeah, seems like I strongly needed to procrastinate and work on
> something not urgent, for a change -- thankfully it seems useful :)
>
I'm a fan of removing Polipo - I wonder - what will Tails users use
for an HTTP proxy? Privoxy? Shim (which isn't freely licensed, sadly)
or something else?
