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

[Hubert Chathi]

package nheko
forwarded 910405 https://github.com/mujx/nheko/issues/458
thanks

Hi Ghost.

Thanks for the report.  It does look like an upstream issue, so I have
forwarded it upstream.

Hubert

On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 01:34:10 +0000, ghost <i at ghosts.work> said:

> 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.

> -- no debconf information

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