Bug#1115586: RFP: flare -- Unofficial lightweight client for Signal Messenger

[Yifei Zhan <debian@zhan.science>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: russell@coker.com.au, debian@zhan.science

* Package name    : flare
  Version         : 0.17.0
  Upstream Contact: https://mobile.schmidhuberj.de/
* URL             : https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/flare
* License         : AGPL-3
  Programming Lang: Rust
  Description     : Unofficial lightweight client for Signal Messenger

The official signal desktop application doesn't work well on mobile devices and
is difficult to package due to its internal complexity, flare can be a
lightweight, easier to maintain alternative to it.

On the other hand, using this application will likely worsen your security
compared to using the official Signal applications, as it hasn't been subjected
to the same amount of scrutiny as the official clients.

I believe it's still worth it to package flare for Debian, there are Debian
platforms which the official clients will likely never run on, but flare might.