[Pkg-anonymity-tools] Bug#804394: torbrowser-launcher: recommends alpha updates due to 5.5a4-hardened being added

[dpdt1]

On Sun, 08 Nov 2015 13:28:26 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-11-08 at 13:09 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> 
> > Normally torbrowser-launcher only downloads stable versions of Tor
> > Browser (currently 5.0.4). Now that 5.5a4-hardened is out, torbrowser-
> > launcher started offering it but since it is in alpha, it should not be
> > offered to users of 5.0.X yet.
> 
> The workaround for this appears to be to edit the settings file and
> replace the latest_version option every 24 hours.
> 
> ~/.config/torbrowser/settings
> 
> -- 
> bye,
> pabs
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
> 
> 


having the same bug.
used the workaround above, but then i get hit by another bug #804270

so tor browser from debian is really unusable for me right now and can
only run 5.0.3 version.

will probably download tor browser manually to use it again, untill
those bugs are fixed.

thanks,

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