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 -- Principal hats: Wookware, Debian http://wookware.org/ Matrix: @wookey:matrix.org
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