Remove Ricochet from Whonix

[nurmagoz]

@HulaHoop

it has no known sec vulns

• its true there is non yet. but what if one security existed while we have our version of whonix 14 stable ? or 15 …?

the flaw will effect all whonix users. Without the ability even to remove/purge it because of this problem:

Continuing the discussion from Whonix VirtualBox 14.0.0.5.5 Testers Wanted!:

@Patrick

No way to solve. Debian isuse. Debian dpkg lacks “weak dependencies” feature.

Debian Packages - Whonix

and since its not maintained atm then no way also to wait for a patch. the only waiting is for the next release of whonix without ricochet.

@HulaHoop

does not require major maintenance efforts on our part or is a core dependency.

• actually Ricochet has a problem of running inside whonix (i couldnt make it work) check:

Continuing the discussion from Whonix VirtualBox 14.0.0.5.5 Testers Wanted!:

@Patrick

Ricochet (as well as onionshare / ZeroNet) unfortunately needs some manual steps by the user before these work.

• the problem of which i think no body studied the effect of it, Ricochet considering each client as hidden service but Ricochet last support is to Tor version 0.2.5 and by default now whonix support 0.3.x. so im not sure on which version of onioning its going to create, is it the v2 or v3 ? also there r many fixes to Tor for hidden services from v0.2.x to 0.3.x.

in conclusion, Ricochet is great app with Tor but its only were continued …

i suggest to check Matrix there is too many users migrating to it. (as also Tox chat no more supporting Debian…)