[Pkg-anonymity-tools] Bug#796299: ftp.debian.org: RM: vidalia -- RoM; unmaintained upstream, buggy, Qt4

[intrigeri at debian.org]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-anonymity-tools at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

as noted on #778699 (aka. "Vidalia should not be part of next Debian
release"):

  Vidalia has been dead upstream for years, and has a crapload of bugs
  nobody will ever fix. The Tor Project is currently actively removing
  any reference to Vidalia from their website.
 
  We're not even sure if it's in good shape in Jessie, e.g. about what
  happens exactly on initial installation -- not sure it is configured
  properly to use the control socket as it should. Some people are
  happier with 0.3.x, but that one is itself alpha-quality software
  with another crapload of bugs that nobody will ever fix. Even Tails
  is going to ditch Vidalia soonish, and Tails is shipping its patched
  version anyway.

Note that even Tails (2.0, based on Jessie) is going to stop including
Vidalia, in favor of a WIP partial replacement called Tor Monitor,
that is being packaged for Debian as we speak.

Besides, Vidalia uses Qt4, that the Qt maintainers would like to drop,
and there's no plan to port it to Qt5.

Cheers,
--
intrigeri