The maintainer of packages for Telegram Desktop for Fedora and RPM Fusion has reported that packages have been removed from the repositories. The day before, the end of support for Telegram Desktop was also announced by the Gentoo package maintainer. In both cases, they announced their readiness to return packages to the repository if there is a new maintainer for them, ready to take maintenance into their own hands.
The current maintainers cite the repulsive and hostile attitude of developers as the reasons for not supporting Telegram Desktop by the current maintainers, who do not even try to understand the errors that lead to problems with compiling their sources in Linux distributions. Messages about such errors are immediately closed with a "WONTFIX" sign and a recommendation to use semi-proprietary binary assemblies from the official site.
The situation is aggravated by the fact that problems that interfere with building packages regularly pop up in new releases, and all attempts to eliminate flaws in upstream come down to statements that developers support only their own static builds and all problems when creating their own builds should be solved independently. For example, support for builds with Qt versions older than 5.15 was recently discontinued, and all requests to somehow solve the problem were simply ignored.
Also noted is the general complexity of organizing the assembly of Telegram Desktop, which complicates maintenance. The project is split into four different repositories (application, webrtc library, scripts for the cmake build system, and sound processing library), but releases are formed in only one repository, and the other three are simply updated as development progresses without committing state. Additionally, dependency conflicts that arise when trying to provide support for Wayland and x11, PulseAudio and ALSA, OpenSSL and LibreSSL make it difficult to build.
Source: opennet.ru