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<p>I'm following up on this today, because Debian finally got off
their lazy butt and uploaded 0.3.6-2 to Debian that addresses the
core problems in Debian.</p>
<p>However, that does not solve the problems for everything in
Ubuntu. With the blessing of the Release team, I did a sync last
night (forced) of 0.3.6-2 from Debian Unstable to Ubuntu Lunar,
which addresses
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/torbrowser-launcher/+bug/2000077">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/torbrowser-launcher/+bug/2000077</a>
in Lunar.</p>
<p>Unfortunately the fix that is applied for this in 0.3.6-2 is
interwoven with all the changes from 0.3.3 to 0.3.6 upstream which
includes new features.</p>
<p>I have not heard back from the Release team on this, or the SRU
team, so I'm re-asking this. Is the SRU / Release team willing to
let us do a one-time backport from Lunar of 0.3.6-2 to the older
releases currently supported (to Bionic but no further backwards)?</p>
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<p>Thomas</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/1/23 14:26, Thomas Ward wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello, release team.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
Pursuant to a recent change for torbrowser-launcher and Tor
Browser, we have a little bit of a conundrum that is leading
to a one time request for SRUing the latest
`torbrowser-launcher` to all currently supported releases.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With Tor Browser 12 (TB12 for short here),
upstream tor browser no longer uses locales, requiring folder
cleanup from TB12 and download URL changes in order for things
to properly function. Unfortunately, the code changes
necessary to implement the changes to torbrowser-launcher are
not easily nitpicked and include more than just these fixes,
as it has new changes and such to make it work properly.
Refer to
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/torbrowser-launcher/+bug/2000077" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/torbrowser-launcher/+bug/2000077</a>
as the current bug on this.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Debian is behind on updating upstream, so
later today I will be preparing a package for Lunar that will
have a -0ubuntu1 prefix for the latest upstream version. That
works fine in Lunar. It also works fine in Kinetic and in
initial tests in Jammy. I’m installing test environments for
Focal and Bionic.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The problem here is, though, we have a mix
of “new features” and “bug fixes” together – there is no
‘major version bump’ for feature branches vs. ‘bugfix’
branches, making it a comingled problem of “new features” and
“bug fixes”. Therefore, I’d like to request a one-time
exception for SRU processes to accept the same version
packaged for each release using Lunar as a base, and adjusting
the packaging as needed accordingly for older releases. That
is, this will be an SRU, but it will accept the ‘new features’
that’re part of torbrowser-launcher that were not present in
Bionic or Focal but are present in later releases.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Most of the ‘feature’ changes allow
choosing additional options, etc. but nothing that as far as I
can tell changes the core functionality of the package.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m happy to discuss this further with the
SRU and Release teams (IRC is always a way to reach me heh),
but given the complexities of including the fixes and changes
just to make tor browser 12 work with the older launchers,
it’d make more sense and ease of fixing this “breaks the
launcher tool entirely” issue by simply taking the current
version and making it match in the entire packaging structure.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m happy to spearhead this, but I wanted
to put this to the Release Team and the SRU team for
consideration before I go through the process of building all
this for the SRU/MRE/Version Bump processes as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A full changelog upstream is available on
their GitHub - <a href="https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thomas<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">LP: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/~teward">https://launchpad.net/~teward</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ubuntu Core Developer<o:p></o:p></p>
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