[tor-bugs] #32676 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Consider publishing a tarball with all Tor Browser langpacks

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#32676: Consider publishing a tarball with all Tor Browser langpacks
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     Reporter:  intrigeri                 |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  enhancement               |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                    |   Keywords:  AffectsTails, tbb-
                                          |  rbm
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 At the moment, during a build of Tails, we download all Tor Browser Linux
 x86_64 tarballs, in order to grab every langpack XPI, which we then all
 ship in our images. This causes trouble for 2 categories of Tails
 contributors:

 * The Tails release manager has to semi-automatically download all these
 tarballs and then upload them to the Tails infrastructure (that's because
 at this time, the tarballs are available only on people.torproject.org,
 and later they will disappear from there; we need a stable URL that we can
 encode in our Git tree, for convenience and reproducibility purposes);
 this consumes time, bandwidth, and storage.
 * After a new Tor Browser has been imported into Tails, next time any
 Tails developer wants to build Tails, as part of the build, downloads each
 of these tarballs. This consumes time, bandwidth, and patience.

 One possible solution for these problems would be to publish, on Tor
 Browser team's side, an additional tarball, that contains all langpack
 XPIs, and nothing else. According to boklm, this tarball would about 16 MB
 large.

 Then, the Tails release manager would only have to import the en-US
 tarball and this all-langpacks tarball. Similarly, Tails developers would
 also have to download only these 2 files.

 This is _not_ a duplicate of #17400 nor #12967, which are about providing
 end-users a multi-lingual Tor Browser.

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