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Design Documentation about Redistribution of {{project_name_short}}
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= Version Variables in the Wiki =

* [[Template:Stable_project_version_based_on_Debian_version_iso]]: <code>{{Stable_project_version_based_on_Debian_version_iso}}</code>
* [[Template:VirtualBox_Host_Software_Installation]]

= Overview of Maintenance Tasks =
UNFINISHED LIST!

software:

* Merge, build, upload, test upgrades of third party maintained software such as:
** hardened-malloc <ref>
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc/releases/tag/8
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** [https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Keystroke_Deanonymization#Kloak kloak]
** tb-updater
** [[Tor]] (see [[Dev/Tor]])
* resign (refresh) repository <ref>
valid-until field
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* Build, test, upload new releases.
* [[What we do]]
* [[Support]]
* [[Documentation]]
** review contributions ([[Special:RecentChanges]])
* review, advice, merge contributions such as
** [[Dev/Porting]] - https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-on-mac-m1-arm/11310

server maintenance:

* payments for server, domains
* server backups
** full files based backups
* update webapps
** mediawiki
** discourse forums
** phabricator (phasing out)
* operating system updates
* testing on stage server before upgrades

= package stable upgrade =
{{CodeSelect|code=
dist_build_apt_codename={{Stable project version based on Debian codename}}-proposed-updates make reprepro-add
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= Tor Browser hardcoded version file =
Keep Tor Browser hardcoded version file up to date.

* subscribe to tor-announce mailing list to be notified of new Tor Browser stable releases
* check if it is already manually downloadable going through torproject.org
* keep [https://github.com/{{project_name_short}}/tb-updater/blob/master/usr/share/tb-updater/tbb_hardcoded_version /usr/share/tb-updater/tbb_hardcoded_version] updated
* to manually test from a Qubes AppVM

{{CodeSelect|code=
CURL_PROXY=--fail tbb_version=6.5.2 qubes_vm_type=Template  update-torbrowser --postinst
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{{CodeSelect|code=
dist_build_apt_codename={{Stable project version based on Debian codename}}-proposed-updates make reprepro-add
}}

= {{project_name_short}} repository TPO packages =
* keep mirroring https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/{{Stable project version based on Debian codename}}/ to whonix.org repository
** do a developer test (upload to developers repository?)
** upload to stable-proposed-updates (currently: {{Stable project version based on Debian codename}}-proposed-updates) for wider testing
** upload to stable (currently: {{Stable project version based on Debian codename}})

{{CodeSelect|code=
./build-steps.d/1200_create-debian-packages --build --allow-untagged true --allow-uncommitted true --internalrun --target root --function "get_tpo_packages ; create_whonix_repository"
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= See Also =
* [[Dev/APT Repository]]

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