[tbb-bugs] #29809 [Applications/Tor Browser]: TBA: Only ship one tor binary per apk

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#29809: TBA: Only ship one tor binary per apk
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     Reporter:  sysrqb                    |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect                    |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                    |   Keywords:
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 Orbot bundles all the binaries into a single apk and ships that, this
 means they only produce one apk for all the platforms they support.
 Unfortunately, with fennec, we must create one apk per arch. However, we
 didn't modify orbot's build system so it only includes one binary for the
 target architecture, therefore our apks include tor binaries for armeabi,
 armeabi-v7a, and x86.

 This causes a little bloat and we can avoid this, but the more problematic
 result is it confuses Google Play such that Google Play thinks each apk
 supports all of those architectures, therefore we can't upload one apk for
 armv7-only and x86-only, because one of them will override the other.

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