Hi, Antoine Beaupré: > On 2019-05-03 17:15:59, intrigeri wrote: >>> 1. maintain through backports (seems to have been the option taken for >>> stretch) >> >> That might be viable if the AppArmor profiles are disabled by default.
> Why would we disable apparmor profiles? See the "2." part of my original bug report. >>> 2. drop TBL and rewrite it as a one-shot installer, like we had for >>> Flash, mstt-corefonts and still have (I suspect?) for other packages >> >> I'm curious: how would that installer differ from TBL in practice? >> >> It seems to me that current TBL is essentially a one-shot installer + >> a .desktop file + some AppArmor profiles. > I think TBL checks for updates at every start. Such a one-shot installer > would deploy TBB and get out of the way after. I see. I thought this check was removed at the same time as the code that performs upgrades but I can very well be mistaken :) >>> 4. drop TBL and shipp TBB directly in Debian >> >>> Option 4, therefore, would require more ambitious packaging work. Maybe >>> we could talk with upstream to see if that would be possible? There are >>> Debian packages for Firefox, after all - how hard could it possibly be >>> to do the same for TBB? ;) >> >> This has been discussed numerous times in the past. I don't recall the >> details but what I remember is: it requires lots of hard work. >> Personally, I don't think it's worth the effort. There's a ticket on >> Tor's Trac about it, that might even have the relevant info. > "There's a ticket on Tor's Trac about it" is one of those statements > that sounds like "I have heard there is a green mouse crawling the > sewers of a small town in rural Kazhakstan with the encryption key to > the Russian nuclear arsenal". Oh dear, how cute was this mouse? (</litteral mode>) > In other words, do you have a ticket number because I have, like many > others, lost all hope of finding anything in Trac that I don't already > know where it is. ;) It took me some time to find it but here it is: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3994 > Is there a ticket for "package TBB for flatpak or snap" on Trac as well? > ;) For Flatpak there is https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25578. For Snap, there's been some discussion on tor-talk@ or tor-dev@ recently, after a Canonical employee served their marketing speech to a Tor person. Cheers, -- intrigeri