Yes it works!!
Thank you enormously @Firenze and @bandali !
H.
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Hi folks!
Just wanted to let everyone know that as of recently, in addition to providing Jami packages for current/older stable versions of Debian, we now also provide packages for Debian Testing and Debian Unstable under the Debian section of the download page.
Hope this helps 
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Amazing job
But am I correct that the arm64 builds are missing for debian testing?
Thank you
Yes indeed. Actually, we currently only provide builds for x86 32- and 64-bits on dl.jami.net. So for now for arm64 and other arches youād have to refer to the Jami package from your distributionās repositories (which may be out of date) or build Jami from source.
Thank you for your quick reply.
Building Jami on Mobian appears to be problematic, so I will have to be patient
Cheers I will be resuming my work on the Jami package in Debianās repositories soon, which may or may not indirectly help the situation for Mobian. Regardless, if you do have a specific bug report about issues building Jami on arm64 Iād appreciate it if you could let me know, so I could try and have a look some time.
Thanks!
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It has been a while, but I am reattempting to build Jami on the Pinephone (mobian bookworm). The other options (arm64 package for debian and the snap package) provide me with a very old version of jami-gtk without swarm.
So I am trying to build the qt-client because I want to use swarm of course.
The only problem I encounter so far is the qt version of mobian, which is lagging behind (5.17 vs 6.2).
So I guess I have to build Qt6.2 firstā¦
Indeed. Note that the Taranis release (its tarball is https://dl.jami.net/release/tarballs/jami_20211223.2.37be4c3.tar.gz) was still based on Qt 5, so you can build that with Qt 5 and use it for a while, but sooner or later youād indeed want to get Qt 6 since the Qt 6 migration patches have already partially been merged into Jami and future releases will use Qt 6.
Thanks, I will use this previous version for a while
To be honest, building al this stuff is still quite complicated for me.
Cheers and I can certainly understand and relate to that; Jami is a complex piece of software and not the easiest to build.
For what itās worth, to give an update, my patch for updating Jami to latest version at least in Debianās repos ā unstable, to be specific ā has been pending review for a while: https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-voip-team/ring/-/merge_requests/7. Itās still jami-gnome and not jami-qt, but new versions of jami-gnome do have some support for swarms. So that might be promising for getting new Jami with support for swarms on Debian (unstable) based distros. And I will start work on preparing patches for Debian for packaging jami-qt in the near future as well.
Thank you, that sounds great!
I tried different builds, and finally one worked! A brief summary:
First attempt; Cloning https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/jami-project and trying to build qt version. Did not work because of the Qt version of my OS.
Second attempt; Installing Snap. It works (gtk version), but the version lags behind a lot. And I want to use swarm of course.
Third attempt; Using a tarball from https://dl.jami.net/release/tarballs/?C=M;O=D and trying to build the Qt version. Building was successful, and the daemon also started. But jami-qt itself only showed a white screen. Perhaps a problem with Qt again on mobian. I have had this in the past with other Qt programs. So that remains a mystery I still have to solve 
Fourth attempt; Using a tarball (most recent one) to build a jami-gnome version. This one works fine (also with swarm). There is a small bug where I canĀ“t get the program āin focusā, so I canĀ“t type anything in the chat. Most of the times that this happens it can be solved using ātabā. So it is good enough to use