[tor-bugs] #26238 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Move from Debian Wheezy to Debian Buster for our Linux builds

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#26238: Move from Debian Wheezy to Debian Buster for our Linux builds
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 Reporter:  gk                             |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  task                           |         Status:  new
 Priority:  High                           |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser       |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                         |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-rbm, TorBrowserTeam202009  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by boklm):

 Replying to [comment:7 sysrqb]:
 > Version 2.24 only added 9 new symbols since 2.17 and zero symbols were
 removed, so that's probably okay?

 I'm not sure that it's okay as if the binaries we generate are using any
 of those 9 new symbols, then it won't work with older glibc versions.

 Looking at glibc versions, switching to buster would probably break Tor
 Browser on Centos 6 & 7, but also on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (glibc 2.27), Debian
 olstable, openSUSE 15.1 (glibc 2.26), NixOS 19.09 (glibc 2.27), and
 probably other still supported distributions. So I think it's too early to
 use buster, and we should rather use jessie or stretch.

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