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



On Tuesday, September 02 2025, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote:

> 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

This is a good point which I didn't know about.

> 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 out-of-date to connect to the servers.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.

Thanks for your question.

TBH, I'm still thinking whether this is something I should pursue.  I
wasn't aware that Signal is so aggressive when it comes to deprecate old
clients, but my initial intention has always been to use -backports
instead of relying on the version from stable.

OTOH, Debian has always shipped with software that suffered from the
problem you've mentioned above, in smaller or larger scales.

Either way, given the (justified) negative reactions with this ITP, I
will go back to the drawing board and probably withdraw this upload.

Thanks,

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