[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#874114: torbrowser-launcher: Shows popup error message " … unable to determine if there is an update available. =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6?="

[Axel Beckert]

Package: torbrowser-launcher
Version: 0.2.7-3

Dear Debian Tor Browser Maintainers,

after being away for a day or so, Tor browser showed me on my
workstation the attached popup message saying "Tor Browser is unable to
determine if there is an update available. Please make sure that you
have the latest version of Tor Browser from:" — it especially shows
nothing behind that colon.

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So this might be several issues in one (feel free to clone the bug
report accordingly):

• Tor Browser is unable to check for updates.

  This could have been a network issue while I wasn't at home, but I'm
  not aware of any (also checked my monitoring.)

  So this might be one of the occassionally happening issues outlined in
  https://bugs.debian.org/861744:

  • Server SSL certificate changed
  • Signing PGP key changed

  If that's the case, it's probably an issue of RC severity and the
  package should be updated accordingly soon.

  Or maybe just a server outage on the Tor Browser project side. (In
  that case and if it doesn't persist, it's a non-issue.)

• Tor Browser shows an incomplete error message.

  While it makes sense to not point people to the Tor Browser project's
  website for those who installed Tor Browser via Debian's
  torbrowser-launcher package, it's still not nice to point people into
  nowhere. (Severity: minor)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages torbrowser-launcher depends on:
ii  ca-certificates  20170717
ii  gnupg            2.1.23-2
ii  python           2.7.13-2
ii  python-gtk2      2.24.0-5.1
ii  python-lzma      0.5.3-3
ii  python-parsley   1.2-1
ii  python-psutil    5.0.1-1+b1
ii  python-twisted   17.5.0-1
ii  python-txsocksx  1.15.0.2-1

Versions of packages torbrowser-launcher recommends:
ii  tor  0.3.0.10-1

Versions of packages torbrowser-launcher suggests:
ii  apparmor       2.11.0-10
ii  python-pygame  1.9.3+dfsg-2+b1

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