[Pkg-matrix-maintainers] Bug#910405: nheko: empty device name causes issue in e2ee chat room

[ghost]

Package: nheko
Version: 0.6.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
   If the device name is empty in the login process (which does not
   warn anything when the field is left as is), the nheko session will
   not show up in other clients (riot.im in my case). Messages sent to
   chat rooms with e2ee enabled either don't get encrypted for existing
   rooms, or get encrypted but appear as unknown in other clients for
   rooms created by the nheko session.

   Since the device name is needed for the session to be recognised by
   other clients, I would expect it either -
      a. be a required field in the login process.
      b. has a default value to be used when not specified.

   I believe this will need to be forwarded upstream, but since Debian
   discourages directly filing bugs to upstream, here I am...

Cheers.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=zh_CN:zh (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages nheko depends on:
ii  libboost-atomic1.67.0     1.67.0-7
ii  libboost-chrono1.67.0     1.67.0-7
ii  libboost-date-time1.67.0  1.67.0-7
ii  libboost-iostreams1.67.0  1.67.0-7
ii  libboost-random1.67.0     1.67.0-7
ii  libboost-regex1.67.0      1.67.0-7
ii  libboost-system1.67.0     1.67.0-7
ii  libboost-thread1.67.0     1.67.0-7
ii  libc6                     2.27-6
ii  libcmark0                 0.28.3-1
ii  libgcc1                   1:8.2.0-7
ii  liblmdb0                  0.9.22-1
ii  libolm2                   2.2.2+git20170526.0fd768e+dfsg-1
ii  libqt5concurrent5         5.11.1+dfsg-9
ii  libqt5core5a              5.11.1+dfsg-9
ii  libqt5dbus5               5.11.1+dfsg-9
ii  libqt5gui5                5.11.1+dfsg-9
ii  libqt5multimedia5         5.11.1-2
ii  libqt5network5            5.11.1+dfsg-9
ii  libqt5svg5                5.11.1-2
ii  libqt5widgets5            5.11.1+dfsg-9
ii  libsodium23               1.0.16-2
ii  libssl1.1                 1.1.0h-4
ii  libstdc++6                8.2.0-7
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

Versions of packages nheko recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20170717

nheko suggests no packages.

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