Le mar. 2 sept. 2025 à 23:07, Josh Triplett <[email protected]> a écrit :
> Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Tue Sep 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM BST, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > > > This package will be maintained by the Debian Javascript team. It's a > > > requirement for signal-desktop. > > > > I use and value Signal, but what's the point of packaging > > signal-desktop in Debian? Surely the packaged client will perennially > > be too out-of-date to connect to the servers. Certainly by the time it > > reaches a stable release. > > Speaking only as a user here: I'd *love* to see signal-desktop packaged > in Debian. It wouldn't help stable anytime soon[1], but it'd work well > in experimental or perma-unstable. > > The upstream signal Debian packages install to `/opt/Signal`, and bundle > various things, including their own copy of electron, ffmpeg, GL/Vulkan > libraries, etc. WOuld be nice to have something closer to Debian Policy. > > [1] Unless it's possible to eventually adopt procedures similar to what > Firefox follows to get new releases into stable, but that's the kind of > long-term effort that would *follow* having a well-established package > in experimental or perma-unstable-with-standing-serious-bug. > Let's try to get electron first...
