Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue Sep 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM BST, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > > This package will be maintained by the Debian Javascript team. It's a > > requirement for signal-desktop. > > I use and value Signal, but what's the point of packaging > signal-desktop in Debian? Surely the packaged client will perennially > be too out-of-date to connect to the servers. Certainly by the time it > reaches a stable release.
Speaking only as a user here: I'd *love* to see signal-desktop packaged in Debian. It wouldn't help stable anytime soon[1], but it'd work well in experimental or perma-unstable. The upstream signal Debian packages install to `/opt/Signal`, and bundle various things, including their own copy of electron, ffmpeg, GL/Vulkan libraries, etc. WOuld be nice to have something closer to Debian Policy. [1] Unless it's possible to eventually adopt procedures similar to what Firefox follows to get new releases into stable, but that's the kind of long-term effort that would *follow* having a well-established package in experimental or perma-unstable-with-standing-serious-bug.
