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

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#3994: Get TorBrowser in Debian
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Comment(by emorris):

 Replying to [comment:22 micahlee]:
 > Why is that? TBB for Linux is only released in x86 and amd64, and Tor
 Browser Launcher works great for both.


 I'm sorry, I certainly didn't mean to denigrate your work, your launcher
 program makes it very easy for users on i386 and amd64 to download the
 official TBB.

 As you say, TBB is only built for i386 and amd64 (I was referring to both
 collectively when I said x86), and Debian supports many other
 architectures. However, there's nothing really architecture-specific about
 Tor Browser; a proper debian-packaged Tor Browser would be built for every
 architecture that debian supports.

 Also, packages that download binaries as torbrowser-launcher does,
 generally can't be distributed in Debian main. Moreover, torbrowser-
 launcher won't work when access to the tor project website is being
 blocked; a proper debian-packaged Tor Browser would be distributed via the
 standard debian mirrors.

 In the absence of such a package, torbrowser-launcher is certainly useful
 for users on x86.

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