Please sync torsocks from Debian

It seems like the bug isn't as critical as I thought. The errors can be ignored. Still it would be great to fix it.
Gentoo already has a patch: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395953#c7

For more information: http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/issues/detail?id=3

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This is still present in torsocks 1.2-3 amd64 in Quantal release.

It's especially annoying, since this has been fixed in Debians 1.2-3, but Ubuntu 1.2-3 ships with a different /usr/lib/torsocks/libtorsocks.a and /usr/lib/torsocks/libtorsocks.so.1.0.0 than Debian.

And apt thinks the 1.2-3 from Ubuntu is more current than the 1.2-3 from Debian. So working around this needs apt-pinning :(

I guess that a simple rebuild would fix this bug for ubuntu. This is a quite easy fix. How can I request a rebuild of torsocks for Ubuntu?

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I've backported a 1.3-3 from saucy (!) in my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~danmbox/+archive/ppa). I still get a bunch of junk:

13:31:17 libtorsocks(28806): WARNING: The symbol res_query() was not found in any shared library with the reported error: Not Found!
  Also, we failed to find the symbol __res_query() with the reported error: Not Found
13:31:17 libtorsocks(28806): WARNING: The symbol res_search() was not found in any shared library with the reported error: Not Found!
  Also, we failed to find the symbol __res_search() with the reported error: Not Found
13:31:17 libtorsocks(28806): WARNING: The symbol res_send() was not found in any shared library with the reported error: Not Found!
  Also, we failed to find the symbol __res_send() with the reported error: Not Found
13:31:17 libtorsocks(28806): WARNING: The symbol res_querydomain() was not found in any shared library with the reported error: Not Found!
  Also, we failed to find the symbol __res_querydomain() with the reported error: Not Found

that makes stderr unreadable. This is kind of important, because the only way to get rid of the junk is to redirect stderr, but in that case you lose all errors. Is this the same bug?

Trusty had the same problem, so I went and "backported" the one from experimental, works fine. I understand these warnings aren't errors, but it's easier to rebuild than get annoyed by them. ;)

Upstream torsocks released 2.0.0 stable. I've merged it from Debian experimental. As it fixes this bug, I'm subscribing sponsors.

https://launchpad.net/~unit193/+archive/ubuntu/staging/+files/torsocks_2.0.0-0ubuntu1.dsc

tor recommends torsocks and parcimonie depends on torsocks. Will they still work?

torsocks is essentially a wrapper for tor, and so I can confirm that it works with tor. parcimonie I can't say for sure, but looks like there's no Debian bugs on it, and upstream author for parcimonie is also a Debian maintainer for torsocks.

This bug was fixed in the package torsocks - 2.0.0-1
Sponsored for Unit 193 (unit193)

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torsocks (2.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. The 2.0 rewrite is considered stable.
    (Closes: #684580, #704861, #755458)
  * Put under the umbrella of the Anonymity Tools Debian Maintainers team.
  * Add watch file and upstream signing key.
  * Add debian/README.source.

 -- Jérémy Bobbio <email address hidden> Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:37:53 +0000

torsocks (2.0.0~rc7-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Refresh quilt patch.
  * Use canonical URL in Vcs-Git.

 -- intrigeri <email address hidden> Sat, 05 Apr 2014 14:23:12 +0200

torsocks (2.0.0~rc6-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * Update debian/rules now that documentation has moved.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5, no changes required.

 -- Jérémy Bobbio <email address hidden> Mon, 17 Mar 2014 21:39:12 +0100

torsocks (2.0.0~rc3-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * Drop now obsolete patches.

 -- Jérémy Bobbio <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Nov 2013 10:05:13 +0100

torsocks (2.0.0~rc2-3) experimental; urgency=low

  * Add a patch to fix a deadlock in getpeername() error path.
  * Add a patch to add compatibility with GNU/kFreeBSD.
  * Add a patch to fix build on s390(x) architectures.

 -- Jérémy Bobbio <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:12:36 +0200

torsocks (2.0.0~rc2-2) experimental; urgency=low

  * Remove Pre-Depends on dpkg as its already satisfied in oldstable,
    as pointed by intrigeri.
  * Add a patch to prevent running tests that require network access.
  * Add a patch to fix undefined syscall values for x86.

 -- Jérémy Bobbio <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:43:14 +0200

torsocks (2.0.0~rc2-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Upload new torsocks rewrite to experimental.
  * Update debian/copyright.
  * Adapt installation cleanup phase to the new upstream version.
  * Remove get-orig-source from debian/rules as we use pristine-tar.
  * Do not ship upstream changelog twice.
  * Gracefully handle the move of torsocks.conf from /etc to /etc/tor.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4, no changes required.

 -- Jérémy Bobbio <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:24:57 +0200