On 2020-06-07 at 15:34, Nicolas George wrote: > Darac Marjal (12020-06-07): > >> That's a rather ironic thing to say on a Debian mailing list :) > > To the best of my knowledge, Debian is not the author of most > packages, and yet build them from source themselves: that proves the > packages are actually Libre Software. Again to the best of my > knowledge, for most packages, any user can rebuild them from source > and it works, Debian makes a lot of effort for that. > > Can you say the same for these repositories? FWIW, in response to this thread I just went on an attempt to build Jitsi myself. As far as I can tell at a skim of their Website and GitHub pages, this seems to consist of two components, which are kept in separate repositories and built / packaged separately: jitsi-meet / jitsi-meet-web, the Web-interface UI for accessing the system, and jitsi-videobridge, the actual videoconferencing backend (or something like that). I was able to successfully build a jitsi-videobridge Debian package from current GitHub master, via dpkg-buildpackage, with only a little difficulty and a few false starts. I failed utterly in building a jitsi-meet(-web) Debian package from current GitHub master by the same method; at least one file it relies upon early in the build (css/all.css) is not included in the repository, the tools it appears to expect to use to build that file do not appear to be included or declared as build dependencies, and I don't see any build documentation at all aside from debian/rules and the (generated?) Makefile. I could probably bang my head against this wall for a while longer and get it working, but I don't care to install more things onto my machine in stabs in the dark for something I don't actually currently plan to use. So your point about this at least not being straightforward to build seems proven, at least to a first-effort approximation. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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