[HTTPS-Everywhere] Draft specification for file used to check for ruleset updates

[Seth David Schoen]

Yan Zhu writes:

> We decided in IRC last week that this would be the desired default behavior.
> 
> In general, it would be difficult to guarantee that a new ruleset
> version is compatible with *all* previous extension versions. Ex: we
> introduce a new XML property, "hasKeyPins", or change the XML ruleset
> structure in a way that is not backwards-compatible past the previous
> extension release.

That's a convincing argument!

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