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Created Oct 12, 2018 by intrigeri@intrigeriMaintainer

Deal with the fact that Tor Browser won't ship language packs anymore

Originally created by @intrigeri on #16048 (Redmine)

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27466

The major reason for this change are:

  • Language packs are extensions and would need to be signed once Tor Browser starts requiring all extensions to be signed (see https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26843, tracked as #12571 here); Tor Browser modifies the strings so they can’t just take the langpacks signed by Mozilla.
  • multi-lingual TBA (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26843)

When building a Tails image, we extract langpacks from the full set of localized Tor Browser tarballs (config/chroot_local-hooks/10-tbb). So once there’s no langpack in there, we don’t know how to ship translations for Tor Browser anymore.

This work upstream is targetted at Tor Browser 9.0 == Firefox 68esr = Oct 2019. As Georg wrote, it “will be 9.0 material if at all”.

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  • Related to #12571
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