Re: new: net/parla & net/deltachat-rpc-server: DeltaChat instant messaging

[Chris Billington]

ya...@protonmail.com wrote:

På lørdag 4. juli 2026 kl. 16:42, skrev Chris Billington
<emu...@disroot.org>:

Chris Billington wrote:

ya...@protonmail.com wrote:

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After enabling test debugging with MODCARGO_TEST_ARGS = -- --no-capture,
I found the webxdc tests initiate a download of
https://apps.testrun.org/webxdc-editor-v3.2.0.xdc

Network access is specifically blocked for the _pbuild user in pf.conf

After temporarily allowing access to the _pbuild user tests complete
with 1 failure:

failures:
      tools::tools_tests::test_maybe_warn_on_outdated

test result: FAILED. 1085 passed; 1 failed; 1 ignored; 0 measured; 0
filtered out; finished in 214.78s

test_maybe_warn_on_outdated is to check if the DC library is an old
version. It is a time-based test, comparing release timestamp and
timestamp_now.
Initial log contains a warning that a failure may be a false positive
due to multi threading, but on a rerun with
MODCARGO_TEST_ARGS = -- --no-capture --test-threads 1
it still fails.

thread 'tools::tools_tests::test_maybe_warn_on_outdated' (298851)
panicked at src/tools/tools_tests.rs:453:5:
assertion `left == right` failed
    left: 1
   right: 0

452    let chats = Chatlist::try_load(&t, 0, None, None).await.unwrap();
453    assert_eq!(chats.len(), 0);

Probably not catastrophic.

However, since network access during port build is not allowed,
MODCARGO_TEST=no is appropriate.

Regards
Chris

I wasn't sure if that was the expected behaviour before. That makes
sense to turn off tests for now as they need network.

When uncommenting, I still get stuck at the same point as prior, but
I reckon unless there is anything really dire, this can probably go in
the cvs tree and do any needed changes from there.

Parla has run for me in the background for a day or two. Unless people
want to trade test email/invite-links to test accounts I think getting
feedback from people using this after doing a standard pkg_add would
be best.

We can always unlink the packages before 8.0-stable if anything is
catastrophic breaking under the hood?

Those using 7.9-stable can still build this for themselves.(stable
usually only takes security updates after release I think?)

I'd say ship it aside from the aforementioned space/tab nits. I know not
what others will opinion.

Hope this helps. Thanks for porting these packages by the way.
--
yaydn

The .tgz files for deltachat-rpc-server and parla are attached.


Is anyone willing to import, or provide OKs?

Regards
Chris Billington

Thanks! To run tests successfully, it would be necessary to temporarily comment the block rule for _pbuild in /etc/pf.conf and reload pf rules. I have left in a commented MODCARGO_ENV for deltachat-rpc-server that forces system sqlcipher in case anyone wants to build on 7.9-stable/-release. It's not needed on -current.

deltachat-rpc-server.tgz
Description: application/compressed-tar

parla.tgz
Description: application/compressed-tar