[tor-bugs] #30558 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Namecoin support for onion sites in Tor Browser

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#30558: Namecoin support for onion sites in Tor Browser
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 Reporter:  arthuredelstein           |          Owner:  JeremyRand
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  needs_revision
 Priority:  Medium                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                    |     Resolution:
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Comment (by JeremyRand):

 > Hrm. I am not convinced yet that the maintenance effort is (so much)
 higher given that we want to review any changes anyway before applying
 them tor tor-browser-build and we might even want to cherry-pick some
 changes and not other which I think could be harder in the submodule
 setup. Thus, let's try it the way I proposed above and see it as part of
 the experiment we are doing.

 Done.  Updated code is at https://notabug.org/JeremyRand/tor-browser-
 build/src/namecoin (Git commit hash
 `88c59a9056a5c458f88e0beecd915e1cee30f2c0`).

 > I was not aware that Namecoin is using rbm as well, which is very nice!
 Keep it going. :)

 Yes, we're using rbm for all of our projects that aren't forks of Bitcoin
 codebases.  We're also gently nudging upstream Electrum to move toward rbm
 as well (and we're using the integration of Electrum-NMC into Tor Browser
 as an opportunity to experiment with using rbm to build Electrum so that
 it's easier to justify this to upstream Electrum devs).

 > Thanks, yes, fixing this would be good I think.

 No longer relevant, as that error message was related to the Git
 submodule, which is now removed.

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