Bug#888236: torbrowser-launcher: broken by Tor Browser 7.5: No such file or directory: '.../Docs/sources/versions'

[Paul Wise]

Package: torbrowser-launcher
Version: 0.2.8-6
Severity: serious
Usertags: crash

Tor Browser upgraded itself to 7.5 but this broke torbrowser-launcher:

https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-75-released

$ torbrowser-launcher
Tor Browser Launcher
By Micah Lee, licensed under MIT
version 0.2.8
https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher
Refreshing local keyring...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/torbrowser-launcher", line 30, in <module>
torbrowser_launcher.main()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/torbrowser_launcher/__init__.py", line 62, in main
app = Launcher(common, url_list)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/torbrowser_launcher/launcher.py", line 91, in __init__
if not self.common.settings['installed'] or not self.check_min_version():
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/torbrowser_launcher/launcher.py", line 603, in check_min_version
for line in open(self.common.paths['tbb']['versions']).readlines():
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/pabs/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/sources/versions'

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages torbrowser-launcher depends on:
ii ca-certificates 20170717
ii gnupg 2.2.4-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.108-3
ii python 2.7.14-4
ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-5.1+b1
ii python-lzma 0.5.3-3
ii python-parsley 1.2-1
ii python-psutil 5.4.2-1
ii python-twisted 17.9.0-1
ii python-txsocksx 1.15.0.2-1

Versions of packages torbrowser-launcher recommends:
ii tor 0.3.2.9-1

Versions of packages torbrowser-launcher suggests:
pn apparmor <none>
ii python-pygame 1.9.1release+dfsg-10+b2

-- no debconf information

[Ivan Vilata i Balaguer]

Package: torbrowser-launcher
Version: 0.2.8-6
Followup-For: Bug #888236

Also bitten by this.

The Tor Browser is still installed under the home directory. To run it while
this issue gets fix, open a shell and execute:

~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser

(This is for x86_64 machines, evidently. This seems to work for me but I'm
not guaranteeing that it's a recommendable way to run it!)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: arm64, armhf

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ca:es (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages torbrowser-launcher depends on:
ii ca-certificates 20170717
ii gnupg 2.2.4-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.108-3
ii python 2.7.14-4
ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-5.1+b1
ii python-lzma 0.5.3-3
ii python-parsley 1.2-1
ii python-psutil 5.4.2-1
ii python-twisted 17.9.0-1
ii python-txsocksx 1.15.0.2-1

Versions of packages torbrowser-launcher recommends:
ii tor 0.3.2.9-1

Versions of packages torbrowser-launcher suggests:
ii apparmor 2.12-1
ii python-pygame 1.9.3+dfsg-2+b1

-- no debconf information

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

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regarding torbrowser-launcher: broken by Tor Browser 7.5: No such file or directory: '.../Docs/sources/versions'
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[Antoine Beaupre]

This bug makes torbrowser-launcher completely unusable on Debian
stretch, as soon as the browser is updated (as it should).

What's expected from stable users here? Is there going to be a stable
update for this?

Thanks!

A.

[intrigeri]

Post by Antoine Beaupre
This bug makes torbrowser-launcher completely unusable on Debian
stretch, as soon as the browser is updated (as it should).
What's expected from stable users here? Is there going to be a stable
update for this?

torbrowser-launcher is not included in Debian Stretch.

Cheers,

[shirish शिरीष]

Post by intrigeri

Post by Antoine Beaupre
This bug makes torbrowser-launcher completely unusable on Debian
stretch, as soon as the browser is updated (as it should).
What's expected from stable users here? Is there going to be a stable
update for this?

torbrowser-launcher is not included in Debian Stretch.

Its included in buster and the new fix has come in sid/unstable just
yesterday -

s> apt-cache policy torbrowser-launcher
torbrowser-launcher:
Installed: 0.2.9-1
Candidate: 0.2.9-1
Version table:
*** 0.2.9-1 100
1 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/contrib amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.2.8-6 900
900 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/contrib amd64 Packages

Post by intrigeri
Cheers,
--
intrigeri
--

[Antoine Beaupré]

Post by Ivan Vilata i Balaguer

Post by Antoine Beaupre
This bug makes torbrowser-launcher completely unusable on Debian
stretch, as soon as the browser is updated (as it should).

~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser

*I* can, but I do not expect an average user to pop open a terminal
every time they want to start torbrowser. :)

This is major breakage, especially because there's no visual feedback in
GUI environments of what is going on... I think this should be fixed in
stable.

A.

[Roger Shimizu]

Post by intrigeri

Post by Antoine Beaupre
This bug makes torbrowser-launcher completely unusable on Debian
stretch, as soon as the browser is updated (as it should).
What's expected from stable users here? Is there going to be a stable
update for this?

torbrowser-launcher is not included in Debian Stretch.

Yes, it's not included in stretch.
However, it can be included into stretch-backports and
jessie-backports-sloppy repo.
I'll make the bpo release when 0.2.9-1 hit testing.

Ah. Duh. Sorry for messing that one up. :)
Let me know if you need help with the backports - i'll try to fix things
instead of complaining here... ;)

Almost all backports version were uploaded by me [0].

[0] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/torbrowser-launcher

And since it already passed the backports new queue, no help is need
here so far.

However if you really want to help backports, here's one :P
- https://bugs.debian.org/882126

Cheers,
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