I would like just voice my support for Debian going ahead with packaging
this project, if someone still has the interest (I do not have the
know-how myself).
An issue has been open since August 3 and continues to garner attention
from the community which is a bug preventing old-stable (and downstream
distros) from working AT ALL with current AND past Signal clients (as
the old versions have been blocked). It is my understanding this issue
is eminently addressable by packaging. There has so far been no response
from Signal maintainers, despite being directly addressed in the issue
multiple times. Additionally, arguments made by the Signal developers
not to have external packaging have now been proven incorrect, in large
part due to the existence/lack of attention to this issue.
I managed to get it working fine with the workaround by "scarf" - so, it
can be made to work by performing one of the suggested build or library
substitution procedures. In summary: no version available via packaging
works, or has worked for as much as three months now (I don't know how
recently the old versions stopped working).
Please see:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/2604
Thank you,
Chris
