Feature #16565: Mention Electrum updates on the doc/known issues page

Feature #16565

Mention Electrum updates on the doc/known issues page

Added by emmapeel 2019-03-16 06:34:37 . Updated 2019-03-23 17:34:36 .

Status:

Resolved

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Category:

Target version:

Tails_3.13

Start date:

2019-03-16

Due date:

% Done:

100%

Feature Branch:

Type of work:

End-user documentation

Blueprint:

Starter:

Affected tool:

Electrum

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Description

Users are sending many emails to frontdesk about electrum not being updated or unoperative, and we have also some reports here in the bugtracker

But there is no mention of this situation on our Electrum page, or our docs. In fact many users mail to support saying "they didn’t find anything on the documentation’.

Maybe we could post something related to this, specially if we take a decision regarding ~~Bug #16564~~

I assign to sajolida for triaging and deciding what to do

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - ~~Bug #16564~~: Consider shipping Electrum as an AppImage	Resolved	2019-03-15
Related to Tails - ~~Bug #16421~~: Electrum Phishing Attack - Upstream Fix Committed	Resolved	2019-02-05

History

#1 Updated by emmapeel 2019-03-16 06:34:52

related to ~~Bug #16564~~: Consider shipping Electrum as an AppImage added

#2 Updated by s7r 2019-03-17 00:52:15

agreed.

we should merge this into our doc:
https://blog.thestever.net/2019/02/26/upgrading-electrum-on-tails-to-3-3-4/

I sincerely hope so we can use the AppImage model for this tool, because it’s so much better for this kind of tool given what happened lately in the wild that pushed us to drastic decisions like cut off from the network pre 3.3 clients, etc.

#3 Updated by sajolida 2019-03-18 13:39:27

related to ~~Bug #16421~~: Electrum Phishing Attack - Upstream Fix Committed added

#4 Updated by sajolida 2019-03-18 14:26:34

Assignee changed from sajolida to emmapeel
QA Check set to Info Needed

Can you please help me understand what we should write about that?

I had a quick look at ~~Bug #16421~~ and understood that there was no real security issue to fix on Tails.

Maybe you can start by pasting here what you usual tell people contacting you about that.

#5 Updated by emmapeel 2019-03-19 13:29:23

Up until now, I was telling them this, but it does not seem to be practical anymore according to ~~Bug #16564~~:

The problem is that the Debian package of electrum is not maintained. Actually Tails will have to drop Electrum support unless bugs https://bugs.debian.org/912042 & https://bugs.debian.org/912042 are fixed and Electrum enters back on Buster (the next Debian release). Tails plans to drop support of Electrum if this is not possible.

More information at https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/16204 and https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/15484

Because of sustainability of the project, Tails relays on the Debian community to get the last version of software. And the version of electrum included in Debian is not the last version.

There are two things you can do:

    Contact the developers on the Debian side. You can find the contacts on https://tracker.debian.org/ under the "maintainers" section.

    Contact the electrum team and ask them to dedicate resources to help Debian maintainers, which are all volunteers, and often out of time..