Requesting Tor packages SRU micro version update exception

[Chuck Peters]

I am requesting "SRU micro version update exception" for Tor packages.  Tor packages with security fixes appear to be maintained upstream at TorProject.org and Debian.  Most of the time I think the Debian packages will resolve the Ubuntu security issues.  However because of the timing of the release cycles of Debian and Ubuntu, backporting a TorProject.org package could occasionally be used to resolve the issue.  

Justification:
It appears that Tor never receives any security updates, or at least it hasn't since 2012.
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/pkg/tor.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=tor
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=tor&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tor&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

According to the Security Team wiki [1] the "MOTU Swat team is responsible for helping to coordinate community supported updates in Ubuntu".  Six days ago I emailed all members of the MOTU Swat team (one team members email bounced) about the issue and no one replied.  

The primary reason the Tor network exists is provide people a way to improve their "privacy and security on the Internet." [2]

Thanks,
Chuck

PS.  
The number of CVE issues for each of the supported Ubuntu releases.

Precise: 14
Trusty: 5
Utopic: 4
Vivid: 4

Instructions on installing the TorProject.org packages: https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en

Debian squeeze-lts is understaffed to maintain all of the security issues, and it has been updated with tor 0.2.4.27-1~deb6u1.

I backported the unmodified Debian packages and uploaded them to my PPA. https://launchpad.net/~cp/+archive/ubuntu/bug-fixes/

1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam
2. https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en