Element-web: Add Debian buster and Ubuntu disco distros

[shirishag75]

As debian is starting with the buster cycle it would be an excellent opportunity for riot to work with Debian. I do/did hear that riot would be in Debian soonish (meaning the buster cycle of roughly around 2 years). It would have been nice to have some initial buster support on the lines of -

18  ######## Third party repos #######
19  deb https://riot.im/packages/debian/ buster main

If I add that to my /etc/apt/sources.list I get the following -

E: The repository 'https://riot.im/packages/debian buster Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Please fix the above.

[uhoreg]

I do/did hear that riot would be in Debian soonish

I find it unlikely, given that there are some significant dependencies that are not yet in Debian, including React and Electron. Unless the Debian JavaScript team pulls off some sort of miracle in the next couple of years.

[shirishag75]

FWIW, react is now in debian https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-react

[uhoreg]

Yup, I already noted that it https://wiki.debian.org/Matrix. There's still a bunch of other libraries that need to be packaged.

[shirishag75]

ah cool, just writing about it. Btw have been looking at https://riot.im/desktop.html and https://riot.im/packages/debian/dists/ . There it says sid instead of unstable. I know some people use 'unstable' some people use 'sid' , there are still no rules if we should call it one or other -

/etc/apt/sources.list.d> cat matrix-riot-im.list 
deb https://riot.im/packages/debian/ sid main 

And it has worked for the time-being -

/home/shirish> sudo apt update
[sudo] password for shirish: 
Hit:1 http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug testing-debug InRelease                           
Hit:2 http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug unstable-debug InRelease                                                    
Get:3 https://riot.im/packages/debian sid InRelease [3,061 B]                                                                  
Hit:4 http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug experimental-debug InRelease                 
Get:5 https://riot.im/packages/debian sid/main amd64 Packages [420 B]                   
Hit:6 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease                                                                                                                 
Hit:7 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease
Hit:8 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian experimental InRelease
Fetched 3,481 B in 27s (129 B/s)                  
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

/home/shirish> aptitude search riot-web
p   riot-web                                                                        - A feature-rich client for Matrix.org 

It seems it still has no gtk+3 support as of now.

[shirishag75]

FWIW, there is stretch and sid support but no buster lablel yet :( . The sid support seems to have been done about couple of weeks back from the time-stamp.

https://riot.im/packages/debian/dists/

[fndax]

Debian buster is now frozen for release in a few months. Riot will not be in Debian's repositories for buster, and https://riot.im/packages/debian/dists/ hasn't been updated to include buster yet.

Notably, riot.im's repositories are also missing disco, the current non-LTS version of Ubuntu, released last week.

[jryans]

Let's morph this issue into the smaller task of validating that Riot works on these new distro releases and adding them to the set we regularly deploy.

[richvdh]

I've added the package to buster and disco in the repository. I'm afraid I've not tested it works on either distro.

[richvdh]

(I also removed trusty and wheezy while I was there)

[shirishag75]

FWIW, I didn't see any change per-se -

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep riot
      deb https://riot.im/packages/debian/ buster main

$ sudo apt update
............................
...........................
Get:8 https://packages.riot.im/debian buster InRelease [2,894 B]
Get:9 https://packages.riot.im/debian buster/main amd64 Packages [431 B]

I haven't tried this though as yet, should I uncomment it now ?

/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ cat matrix-org.list 
# This sourcelist is managed by the matrix-archive-keyring package; changes
# done here will be overridden by the next package configuration or update.
# deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/matrix-archive-keyring.gpg] http://matrix.org/packages/debian/ buster main
# deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/matrix-archive-keyring.gpg] http://matrix.org/packages/debian/ buster main

I tried but the new key doesn't work or something else is going on as far as the matrix part is concerned.

Err:2 https://packages.matrix.org/debian buster InRelease
  The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F473DD4473365DE1
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: https://packages.matrix.org/debian buster InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F473DD4473365DE1
E: The repository 'http://matrix.org/packages/debian buster InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

$ curl -L https://packages.matrix.org/debian/matrix-org-archive-keyring.asc | sudo apt-key add -
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  4000  100  4000    0     0   4484      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  4489
OK

And still get the same error, anybody has any idea what's going on ?

Err:1 https://packages.matrix.org/debian buster InRelease
  The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F473DD4473365DE1
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: https://packages.matrix.org/debian buster InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F473DD4473365DE1
E: The repository 'http://matrix.org/packages/debian buster InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

I do see the new .asc key at http://matrix.org/packages/debian

[jryans]

@shirishag75 I think you might be mixing up the Riot and Synapse package repos. We recently updated the instructions at https://riot.im/download/desktop for the new Riot packaging key. I'd suggest trying those steps.

[jooola]

@richvdh Just installed the package from the buster repo, everything went well.

[ra1nb0w]

@richvdh Just installed the package from the buster repo, everything went well.

Also for me. thank you!

[jryans]

Thanks for the verification! I am going to consider this task done. Thanks for the help @richvdh!

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