Re: why package Signal in Debian? (was Re: Bug#1113746: ITP: node-noop6 -- No operation as a module using an arrow function)

["Paul R. Tagliamonte" <paultag@gmail.com>]

My memory here is sketchy but I think on top of this very good point, clients built longer than some time (like, 4 weeks?) earlier won't successfully handshake 

:wq

On Tue, Sep 2, 2025, 7:33 AM Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> 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out-of-date to connect to the servers.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.



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