algernon [1] filed a deletion request for chrysalis [2]: I am the upstream maintainer and primary developer of Chrysalis, and I am requesting the deletion of the `chrysalis` package in that capacity.
The major reason for the request is that the way this package is made completely breaks Chrysalis. Running with an external Electron is unsupported upstream to begin with, and results in Chrysalis not finding some of its static assets, such as the firmware files it is supposed to flash. This already breaks an important capability of the application. On top of that, the packaging upgrades Electron from version 17 to 19. This breaks pretty much every functionality of the package, because of breaking changes within Electron. We have intentionally stayed on Electron 17 upstream due to this reason. Anything higher introduces subtle bugs that simply do not exist with Electron 17. We will upgrade Electron once we verified that the regressions have been fixed, or if we figure out how to work them around. Due to these issues, and after numerous reports on our Discord by frustrated Arch users, we added a sanity check at startup, that verifies Chrysalis is running in a sane environment. For the past two releases, when installed via the `chrysalis` package in AUR, the application displays this screen on start: https://user- images.githubusercontent.com/17243/193005865-46313413-5ae7-46d4-b52b-8438c7ced2a0.png Running Chrysalis with an external Electron, one that is TWO MAJOR VERSIONS HIGHER than what is officially supported is never, ever going to work. Please remove the package, so it doesn't cause more confusion and frustration among Chrysalis users that happen to use Arch. If you need more information, you can email me at [email protected]. Thanks in advance! [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/algernon/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/chrysalis/
