Comment 33 for bug 247867

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote : Re: [Bug 247867] Re: Please merge Torbutton 1.2.0~rc5-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

On 02/05/2009 08:26 AM, Michał Gołębiowski wrote:
> It's connected to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/torbutton/+bug/273027
> Hardy's torbutton-extension package is too old, and therefore not compatible with Firefox 3.
>
> Maybe I used wrong words, it's not about the security of the system, but
> of the single person that wants more privacy, which is sometimes
> important. They install the package and they can think they're save,
> whereas it doesn't work at all.
>
> Even if the 'security' word is inappropriate, I believe it should be
> backported, as the current Hardy's package is simply useless.
>
This should be a fairly minor change in the version in Hardy but i agree
maybe we should backport current stable release the release that is used
in the bug report is not stable or we wait until final release of this
tor version. I would rather we didnt introduce bugs to a LTS release if
we can avoid it.

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