[tor-bugs] #31547 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Back out or modify patches for Mozilla's bug 1574980

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#31547: Back out or modify patches for Mozilla's bug 1574980
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     Reporter:  gk                   |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  task                 |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Very High            |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor     |    Version:
  Browser                            |   Keywords:  TorBrowserTeam201908,
     Severity:  Normal               |  tbb-update
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 The patches for bug 1574980 fix a security flaw in dealing with the
 maintenance service on Windows. We don't use that one, so we should be not
 affected. However, the way the fix was written is that it drags
 maintenance service related code into the general updater code: we build
 that now, too, which was not the case before. We don't want and need that
 and should either back out the whole patches (both for esr60 and esr68) or
 come up with a better solution.

 I guess due to time constraints we follow the former idea and try to write
 better patches later on (and get those upstreamed).

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