[Bug 1837793] Re: This version of Tor (0.3.2.10) is not recommended

[themusicgod1]

For what it's worth, I agree with Robie Basak on the above : just
because tor itself is warning that it's "not recommended" by upstream
does *not* justify it being a bug in that release of ubuntu per se -
though, some thought should have, and did go towards upgrading in future
versions (ie post bionic).  Since this did in fact did happen, and that
was the extent to which I, in 2019, was interested in this warning
message.

This particular "bug" neither specified provable breakage nor CVE

Personally I'm in favour of a global fork of tor away from the tor
project (which was not necessary in 2019) so I would express caution at
"Case 3b" - in projects that have gotten rotten at the upstream, making
them 'exceptional' in this way gives a form of political power over
users that is actively dangerous - the ubuntu upgrade cycle works fine
as a political compromise for now.

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Title:
   This version of Tor (0.3.2.10) is not recommended

Status in tor package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 18.04 bionic LTS

  tor:
    Installed: 0.3.2.10-1
    Candidate: 0.3.2.10-1

  in syslog:

  Jul  5 10:54:01 eva Tor[31372]: Please upgrade! This version of Tor
  (0.3.2.10) is not recommended, according to the directory authorities.
  Recommended versions are:
  0.2.9.15,0.2.9.16,0.2.9.17,0.3.5.8,0.4.0.5,0.4.0.6,0.4.1.2-alpha,0.4.1.3-alpha

  Not sure how bad that is, or how radical of a change 0.3.5.8 is

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