#1040016 Package:discord ITP: discord a modern voice & text chat app

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
matt quintanilla
Date:
2025-11-29 16:53:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1040016#5
Date:
2023-07-01 04:09:14 UTC
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Package:discord
Severity: ITP
Package name: discord
Version: 0.0.27
Upstream Author: https://discord.com
URL: https://discord.com
License: custom
Description: All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers
Copyright: https://discord.com/terms#7 depends=('libnotify' 'libxss' 'nspr'
'nss' 'gtk3') optdepends=('libpulse: Pulseaudio support' 'ibappindicator:
Systray indicator support' 'xdg-utils: Open files') source=("
https://dl.discordapp.net/apps/linux/$pkgver/$pkgname-$pkgver.deb"
"LICENSE-$pkgver.html::https://discordapp.com/terms"
"OSS-LICENSES-$pkgver.html::https://discordapp.com/licenses")
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Please let me know if you need any more info
he/him
https://www.mattquintanilla.xyz/
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#1040016#10
Date:
2023-07-01 04:14:58 UTC
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Please ignore Bug 1040017 that one was a mistake, can I use 2 emails for
the maintainer one is a alt incase one doesn't work it is
matt@mattquintanilla.xyz
thanks
he/him
https://www.mattquintanilla.xyz/

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#1040016#15
Date:
2023-07-01 04:33:00 UTC
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fwiw arch got permission to upload it to the arch repos
<https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/discord/-/blob/main/Permission_to_Distribute.mbox>
so I think it should be fine to upload to the debian repository
he/him
https://www.mattquintanilla.xyz/

#1040016#20
Date:
2023-07-01 04:38:23 UTC
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They also have a public test build and an alpha build that we could also
upload and should we upload the .deb version or the tar.gz version this is
the .tar.gz version
<https://dl.discordapp.net/apps/linux/$pkgver/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz>
he/him
https://www.mattquintanilla.xyz/

#1040016#29
Date:
2023-07-01 06:41:19 UTC
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reassign 1040016 wnpp
severity 1040016 wishlist
thanks

Hi Matt,

I'm reassigning your ITP to the wnpp pseudo-package [1].

#1040016#32
Date:
2023-07-01 07:30:35 UTC
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Hi Matt,

I was curious for this ITP, and got some questions:

(BTW, to get the ITP formally right, you need to claim ownership of the ITP bug
to express "I will package discord.")

I think there is some misconception how packages are uploaded in Debian, reinforced
by your next message:

The tar.gz (https://dl.discordapp.net/apps/linux/0.0.27/discord-0.0.27.tar.gz)
is not the source code, but pre-compiled stuff. Where can I find the source code?
Is their desktop client really open source as in DFSG? (I looked, but I could
not find the source…)

In Debian we build everything from source, so it is not ok to just upload the
tar.gz from discord repackaged as .deb, if that is what you meant with
"I think it should be fine to upload to the debian repository"

I think another misconeption how debian packaging works… I'd recommend
reading [1], (and if you are involved with discord, [2]

[1] https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide

The license-link seems to point to their TOS. TOS != (source code) license.

#1040016#51
Date:
2023-11-21 14:15:09 UTC
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1) isn't it electron based ? ie shouldn't this request depend on
https://bugs.debian.org/842420 ?
2) as others have mentioned before, isn't this proprietary?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord claims as such

Jeff Cliff

#1040016#56
Date:
2024-05-01 22:17:35 UTC
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