Bug#704861: torsocks: documentation with sources references obsolete file, and omits prerequisites

2013-04-07 Thread intrigeri 
Control: tag -1 + upstream
Control: forwarded -1 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8659
Control: severity -1 minor

Hi,

Anonymous wrote (30 Mar 2013 21:44:44 GMT) :
 In the git version of the INSTALL document, there is a reference to
 Makefile.cvs, which has been obsoleted.

Thanks for noticing. I forwarded this report upstream:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8659

Care to submit a patch?

 In the debian version, there was no mention of packages that are
 required for building, and it takes some investigation to discover
 what's missing.  The build process fails if the user does not have
 automake and libtool.  Perhaps there should be an INSTALL.debian file
 if these packages are particular to debian.

Debian is a binary distribution: we don't ship instructions about
building packages in the packages themselves.

However, Debian distributes its source, and source packages have
build-dependencies (see the debian/control file), that you can easily
install this way:

  # apt-get build-dep torsocks

So, I'm calling that one not-a-bug. In the future, please try to file
separate bug reports for separate problems, as it makes it much easier
to deal with on our side. Thanks!

Cheers,
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Bug#704861: torsocks: documentation with sources references obsolete file, and omits prerequisites

2013-04-06 Thread Anonymous 
Package: torsocks
Version: 1.0~epsilon+dfsg1-1
Severity: normal

The INSTALL file has flaws in both the latest debian source package
for torsocks, and also the latest in git.  

In the git version of the INSTALL document, there is a reference to
Makefile.cvs, which has been obsoleted.

In the debian version, there was no mention of packages that are
required for building, and it takes some investigation to discover
what's missing.  The build process fails if the user does not have
automake and libtool.  Perhaps there should be an INSTALL.debian file
if these packages are particular to debian.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages torsocks depends on:
ii  libc6 2.11.3-4   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

Versions of packages torsocks recommends:
ii  tor0.2.3.25-1~~squeeze+1 anonymizing overlay network for TC

torsocks suggests no packages.

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