Re: why package Signal in Debian? (was Re: Bug#1113746: ITP: node-noop6 -- No operation as a module using an arrow function)
Hi,
On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 11:49:59AM +0000, Stephan Verbücheln wrote:
> To my knowledge, no one has ever successfully packaged signal-desktop.
> Even the Flatpak build script just downloads the binaries from
> signal.org and unpacks the DEB file.
>
> https://github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal/blob/master/org.signal.Signal.yaml#L73
>
> Same for the ebuild in Gentoo Linux.
>
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-im/signal-desktop-bin/signal-desktop-bin-7.67.0.ebuild
>
> For this reason, I refuse to install Signal desktop on my machines.
There is an unofficial Flatpak that does build from source and
provides arm64 binaries (which are not provided by Signal themself):
https://github.com/signalflatpak/signal
Greetings,
-- Sebastian
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