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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 2025-09-03 17:25 +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
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

That is excellent news. Signal is useful, but also infuriating because
most of the normal advantages of free software are not in practice
available due to OWS policies (not letting other builds connect to
their servers (so no f-droid version), only providing x86 binaries,
making you download new ones every month or two otherwise it stops
working, have to use the android/iOS version every 3 weeks otherwise
the desktop version stops working etc).

Molly solves the f-droid problem, but the 'no arm64 builds' thing has
been a huge PITA for the last year (and caused me to rant at people
that want to use signal rather than matrix, which doesn't sufer from
any of the above issues). A debian package that actually built from
source would be a massive boon (assuming that OWS will actually let it
connect - do they?).

So yes please, don't abandon the ITP.

This issue of software that requires a very high update frequency is
probably only going to increase, given current development trends. So
fasttrack.debian.net or something like it probably does need to get
better-integrated/officialised.

Wookey
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