Update request: teams-for-linux 1.4.27 → 1.7.4

[xdinterface]

• Package name: teams-for-linux
• Latest released version: 1.7.4

• Current version on the unstable channel: 1.4.27
• Current version on the stable/release channel: 1.4.27

• Checked the nixpkgs pull requests

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@muscaln
@lilyinstarlight
@qjoly
@chvp

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[ShamrockLee]

@Julien76 How do you package teams-for-linux 1.7.4?

The upstream moves back to NPM package-lock.json in IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux#1284 and in release 1.6.0, meaning we need to rewrite this package's Nix expression.

[Julien76]

@ShamrockLee,
I tried building using npm or converting the npm lock file to a yarn.lock but every time the build was failing due to some electron dependency issues.

So in the end, I built it against the appImage as follow:

{
  pkgs,
  lib,
  ...
}: let
  teams-for-linux-updated = pkgs.appimageTools.wrapType2 rec {
    name = "teams-for-linux";
    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
      url = "https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux/releases/download/v1.7.4/teams-for-linux-1.7.4.AppImage";
      hash = "sha256-A4RgpUeC8W5aHEZ/CrjZIVYvkynpfs015Kxo2XlNtlE=";
    };

    desktopItems = [
      (pkgs.makeDesktopItem {
        inherit name;
        exec = name;
        icon = name;
        desktopName = "Microsoft Teams for Linux";
        comment = meta.description;
        categories = ["Network" "InstantMessaging" "Chat"];
      })
    ];

    meta = {
      description = "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux";
      mainProgram = name;
      homepage = "https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux";
      license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
      maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [muscaln lilyinstarlight qjoly chvp];
      platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
    };
  };
in {
  home.packages = with pkgs; [
    teams-for-linux-updated
  ];

  xdg.desktopEntries."teams-for-linux" = {
    name = "Microsoft Teams for Linux";
    comment = "Team communication and collaboration software";
    icon = "teams-for-linux";
    type = "Application";
    exec = ''env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="" ${pkgs.teams-for-linux}/bin/teams-for-linux %U'';
    categories = ["Network" "InstantMessaging" "Chat"];
    terminal = true;
  };

  # Add the configuration file for teams-for-linux
  xdg.configFile."teams-for-linux/config.json".source = ./config.json;
}

please not that I'm quite new to Nix and I might have done something wrong while trying to build with npm or yarn. Also I used this expression with home-manager so I'm not sure how it'll work without it.

[michelealbrigo]

Bumping this up, because since today, unstable is not building anymore with teams-on-linux package, because it carries version 29.4.6 of electron, now marked as EOL.

Known issues:
        - Electron version 29.4.6 is EOL

Workaround available by permitting it as insecure package.
Edit: workaround not working around for me: package does not build. I disabled the package and went to Thunderbird + OWL in the meantime

[VincentBerthier]

I have the same problem unfortunately.

[DamienCassou]

Fixed in #337868.