Hey there,
In Lunar we changed the telegram-desktop deb to be 'a snap installer',
which was done on upstream request. The telegram-desktop snap is
maintained by upstream.
Now we are considering doing the same in stable series, I would like to
get some input on the topic (probably from the SRU team?).
The initial request has been registered on
https://launchpad.net/bugs/2000552, copying the rational
'
> This package is not maintained by the upstream project maintainers
and it gets lots of reports about crashes and bugs. I would like to
suggest a transition to a snap installer so that installing
> this package would automatically install official snap package of
Telegram Desktop:
> https://snapcraft.io/telegram-desktop
> Like it was done for Firefox, Chromium.
> That way the upstream maintainers could take care of the users of
this package. Thank you.'
We also have issues because the outdated client doesn't handle well
newer server side features, for example https://launchpad.net/bugs/1998127
> The old version of telegram installed via apt does not display
messages containing characters added in newer versions.
We have a few options there
1. Fixing the deb in older series, either by updating the version or
backporting changes. That's complicated though since new versions also
have new requirements. We also don't have resources to allocate to those
updates nor seen contributors interested in helping.
2. Empty the deb and recommend users to install the software from
upstream directly.
3. Replace the deb by a snap installer.
We believe that 3. is the best solution for us and our users.
How would the SRU team feel about going that way?
Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher
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