Bug#866502: #866502: RFP: riot-web -- Graphical chat client for use with the decentralized matrix communication servers.
There are several obstacles to packaging riot-web (both the desktop
version and the webapp version) in Debian. In addition to react and
electron not being in Debian, as shirish mentioned, the build process
needs a newer version of npm than what is available in Debian, and the
JavaScript version of olm requires emscripten, which is currently not
usable in Debian. There are probably many other little JavaScript
packages that Riot depends on that are not yet in Debian.
We have a wiki page tracking the packaging status for several
Matrix-related software in Debian, including Riot:
https://wiki.debian.org/Matrix
Hubert
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