[bug#42380] Wow!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

André Batista <nandre@riseup.net> skribis:

> Apart from noscript which Tor Browser itself does not build from source
> and https-everywhere which at the time I thought I'd be able to build
> from source but I got stuck on rust dependency nightmare and had to
> delay. Unfortunately, this issue still remains to be solved.

OK, not too bad.

>> > My understanding is that the Tor people discourage anyone else from
>> > distributing builds of the Tor browser.
>
> That's also my understanding, however I do think that building from
> source is: 1. the very core of software freedom, despite the relevance
> other concerns such as diminishing anonymity set; 2. one of the main
> strenghts and what Guix strives for.

+1

> In the mean time, I'll take this as an invitation to send a new patch
> version with the latest Tor Browser stable. I've made some minor
> improvements such as using tarballs from archive.torproject.org instead
> of {git|dist}.torproject.org.
>
> Since they are planning a new stable release in the next few days, I'll
> take the time to work on a reproducibility issue that have arised with
> the new zip routine to package extensions inside omni.ja which affected
> the timestamps, at least the way I did it.

Exciting, thank you!

Ludo’.