[tor-bugs] #29454 [HTTPS Everywhere/EFF-HTTPS Everywhere]: Updates of HTTPS-Everywhere we ship do not seem to update the rulesets

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#29454: Updates of HTTPS-Everywhere we ship do not seem to update the rulesets
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 Reporter:  gk                                   |          Owner:  legind
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_information
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  HTTPS Everywhere/EFF-HTTPS           |        Version:
  Everywhere                                     |
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
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Comment (by legind):

 > Okay, so the item is meant to display the last date when those rulesets
 got *fetched*? Or is it meant to show the version of the currently
 *active* rulesets? My intuition (and that of the user who reported that
 bug) is the latter, because that's what I as a user care about. It seems
 to me then that the item should not "lie" to the user regardless whether
 the check on start-up is succeeding or not (it might in fact even fail
 outside of Tor Browser/unrelated to it for various reasons).

 Yes, it's the latter.  I don't quite understand your point about the
 extension lieing to the user.  If the rulesets have been downloaded and
 applied, it displays it.  If not, it will not display the ruleset line.



 > Extension update checks are not on the same schedule as ruleset update
 checks, so what happens if you update your extension (because there is a
 new version available) but you already had *newer* rulesets installed? Do
 those newer rulesets get overwritten by the ones shipped with the
 extension?

 Out-of-band downloaded rulesets, if present, will always take precedence
 over extension-bundled rulesets.  We also always make a ruleset release on
 the same day as an extension release, to minimize the cases where a user
 has an old out-of-band ruleset and a newer extension.

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