[UNMAINTAINED] Signal Messaging Devel Project

Currently unmaintained, see https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/UAWW5FAODWVJH4R64A5Z2OUL342XEZOT/

This provides the Signal-Desktop app.

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Bruno Pitrus (dziobian) - 7 months ago

maintainer

Signal 8.6.0 and above will NOT be packaged by me anymore:

It's a major refactor adding a new build dependency (rolldown) which would need to be packaged separately
due to outside life events for about a month i haven't been able to dogfood this package as much as i would like
Electron is stuck on 37 which is out of date. I don't know how long new Signal versions will run on old electron, and there's been nobody willing to pick up maintaining it.

Sorry for this short notice.

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Andreas Schneider (gladiac) - 7 months ago

maintainer

Thank you very much for your work maintaining Electron and Signal for many years!

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i thod (ithod) - 7 months ago

maintainer

Thanks a lot, I completely understand and I have the same problem finding time...

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Stefan Seyfried (seife) - 4 months ago

Thank you. It was nice while it lasted but I totally understand your reasons.

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palka (richie_pp) - 4 months ago

Thank you for maintaining it all these years. I appreciate the work a lot.

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Cornfeed Hobo (cornfeedhobo) - 4 months ago

Thank you for all your hard work over the years.

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Manami Mori (Manami) - 9 days ago

Thank you very much for your hard work maintaining Signal for so many years. I have found this repository incredibly useful. I tried updating this repository to update Signal above 8.6.0, and I successfully updated it to 8.20.0 and 8.33.0 in my forked repository: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:Manami:branches:network:im:signal . Currently, it works fine on openSUSE Tumbleweed. However, as you mentioned, it is difficult to keep up with the updates because there are many drastic upstream changes.

I would love to contribute these changes back to this repository, but I have been so busy that I haven't been able to clean up my workarounds and fix the build errors for version openSUSE 16.0. I would really appreciate it if someone could support me with this work. Sincerely,

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i thod (ithod) - 8 days ago

maintainer

Thanks a lot for your efforts! As @dziobian pointed out, the main issue is Electron. If I saw it correct, you still use version 37 which is outdated and a security risk. Please start with updating Electron which is the show-stopper and most time consuming. If you have managed this, please feel to send MRs, even if they only work for TW.

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Manami Mori (Manami) - 7 days ago

Thank you for your kind advice! Okay, I will try updating nodejs-electron and nodejs-packaging. However, as I mentioned, I don't have much time to spend on this, so it may take a while.

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Daniel Franke (dfranke) - 4 months ago

Since I rely heavily on this package, I need either volunteer to take it over, or else just switch to the Flatpak. I'm evaluating which course makes more sense and will update here with my conclusion.

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Daniel Franke (dfranke) - 4 months ago

I decided that using the official AppImage is the best way forward. The official documentation for installing the AppImage is incomplete: it forgets some XDG integration hooks such as making the application icon available. Here's a shell script that should make it seamless: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dfoxfranke/4f5097098be42bf538eec0b63a741e7a/raw/40cb355fd9b40377b5b0dfb5a51a355844119956/install-signal.sh

And if you're here reading this then I assume you already know how to remove the package from this repo, but just in case:

sudo zypper rm -u signal-desktop && sudo zypper rr network:im:signal

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Rainer Kaluscha (rk271) - 4 months ago

Thnx a lot to the previous maintainers for your great work up to now.

I switched to the official AppImage by signal.org. After copying $HOME/.config/Signal to $HOME/.config/Signal AppImage things worked fine again - though the AppImage seems to run somewhat slower than your native rpm ...