[tor-bugs] #3994 [Tor bundles/installation]: Get TorBrowser in Debian

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#3994: Get TorBrowser in Debian
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 Reporter:  lunar                     |          Owner:          
     Type:  task                      |         Status:  assigned
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Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:          
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Comment(by lunar):

 Replying to [comment:14 tux]:
 > Hmm, maybe because of that it might make sense to try to get the patches
 of the TorBrowser upstream (I count 26 patches in src/current-patches/)?
 So that an 'iceweasel-tor' package could actually just provide a wrapper
 script, with no need for a modified Firefox/Iceweasel binary (which is
 probably easier said than done :), I obviously have no clue of the
 TorBrowser internals). This should greatly reduce long term maintance
 costs for an iceweasel-tor Debian package, shouldn't it?

 TorBrowser contains patches against Firefox only because getting upstream
 to include the needed privacy fixes and improvements has always been
 painful until now.

 On the Debian side, Mike Hommey said he did not want to be accountable for
 issues related to the TorBrowser patches and so he does not want to
 include them in the main 'iceweasel' package.

 What he his willing to support and provide (and Debian security team is
 supportive as well) is an 'iceweasel-src' package that would contain
 Iceweasel source code. Another package could be built using it to create
 the TorBrowser.

 I still would like to do that part of the work. Life has been an issue,
 though. If people with enough Debian knowledge have enough free time on
 their hands, they should go ahead!

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