[tor-bugs] #4984 [Tor bundles/installation]: remove build detritus from tbb releases

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Mon Jan 30 12:58:48 UTC 2012


#4984: remove build detritus from tbb releases
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 Reporter:  phobos                    |          Owner:  erinn       
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  needs_review
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:              
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:              
 Keywords:                            |         Parent:              
   Points:                            |   Actualpoints:              
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Changes (by rransom):

  * status:  assigned => needs_review


Comment:

 See
 [https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/rransom/torbrowser.git/shortlog/refs/heads/bug4984
 bug4984] ( `https://git.torproject.org/user/rransom/torbrowser.git
 bug4984` ) for a patch to add explanatory comments to `remove-shared-lib-
 symlinks`'s debug-dump files, so there will be absolutely no excuse for
 asking whether two small text files might be ‘rogue’ in a directory full
 of multi-megabyte binaries.

 Removing these files is not an option -- I found #3801 (a sign that some
 TBBs did not contain what their documentation claimed they did) and #3906
 (a major security problem) by looking at shared library names in the
 distributed TBBs.  It's bad enough that we have to rename the shared
 libraries at all.

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