[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#970768: torbrowser-launcher: error while checking version number after TorBrowser 10.0 release

[Lev Lamberov]

Hi Roger,

Чт 24 сен 2020 @ 01:43 Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu at gmail.com>:

> Dear Lev,
>
> Thanks for your report!
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 4:00 PM Lev Lamberov <dogsleg at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> Package: torbrowser-launcher
>> Version: 0.3.2-13
>> Severity: grave
>> Tags: upstream
>> Justification: renders package unusable
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> because of faulty version number check, torbrowser-launcher cannot
>> correctly handle TorBrowser 10.0 release. Now it shows the following
>> error message:
>>
>> The version of Tor Browser you have installed is earlier than it
>> should be, which could be a sign of an attack!
>>
>> Seems that because of this error it is not possible to install the new
>> release of TorBrowser, and installation of it is run everytime when
>> running torbrowser-launcher. So, torbrowser-launcher simply doesn't do
>> what it should (install and run TorBrowser), which make it unusable.
>>
>> There is an upstream issued already reported, see #498 [#498], and
>> merge request submitted.
>>
>> [#498] https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher/issues/498
>
> I just uploaded 0.3.2-14~exp1 to experimental.
> Since I cannot launch TBB after downloading it.
> (I'm using buster + backports)
> Can you kindly help to confirm it works on your side? Thanks!

I've installed torbrowser-launcher from experimental and can confirm
that it works properly for me. Thanks for you work on it!

Cheers!
Lev