[tor-talk] torsocks is broken and unmaintained

[Jacob Appelbaum]

intrigeri:
> Hi,
> 
> Maxim Kammerer wrote (03 Nov 2012 12:16:23 GMT) :
>> inb4 incoming stream of Debian-centric patches: please be wary of
>> glibc differences:
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395953
> 
>> Wrt. this specific bug, perhaps you will want to use Anthony Basile's
>> solution instead of the patch in Debian:
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636943
> 
> Thanks, this remembered me I should test this patch.
> 
> So, on current Debian Wheezy, Anthony Basile's patch (without our own
> one, that is apparently eglibc-specific) fixes *almost* all the false
> warning messages. So, given it apparently fixes the bug entirely on
> other platforms, applying it is probably the way to go.
> 
> However, to entirely fix the bug for eglibc users too, our
> 0002-If-a-symbol-cannot-be-found-also-try-by-prefixing-it.patch
> (or something better) is needed as well, so I guess I'll go on
> carrying it in Debian if it is not merged upstream.
> 
> No emergency in either case, Nick's careful plan looks totally
> sensible to me.

I've updated the bug with my take on a fix:

  http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/issues/detail?id=3#c33

All the best,
Jake