[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] torbrowser-launcher and next stable release

[Roger Shimizu]

Dear Ulrike,

Thanks for reaching out, and sorry about late reply, (bow)!

I think it deserves a try to include torbrowser-launcher into bullseye
and maintain it as long as we can.
We can remove it any time if there's huge change from upstream that
release team cannot accept it as pu.
I think this was mentioned previously for buster.
What do you think, now?

And I also welcome you back as co-maintainer in case you have spare time.

Cheers,
Roger

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 7:52 AM Ulrike Uhlig <ulrike at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> hi Roger,
>
> I hope you are doing well.
>
> In January there'll be the freeze for the next stable release of Debian
> Bullseye. [1]
>
> In previous versions of Debian stable, we generally did not include
> torbrowser-launcher, because we lacked time and availability to take
> care of that package properly.
>
> How do you feel about this issue with regards to Debian Bullseye?
> I think it's worth and valid to consider having torbrowser-launcher only
> available via backports, as we do now and excluding it from Bullseye -
> on the grounds that it'd be a lot of effort to keep maintaining that
> piece of software for Bullseye's lifetime.
>
> But I'm only mentioning it, so that it has been said. I'm not going to
> open a bug for this issue myself.
>
> - Ulrike
>
> [1] https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html