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

[Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>]

Last I heard, signal had some binary blob that wasn't really free
software? Was it only for the mobile client?

Best

Il giorno mar 2 set 2025 alle ore 13:32 Jonathan Dowland
<jmtd@debian.org> ha scritto:
>
> 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 out-of-date to connect to the servers.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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