Signal-desktop not found after updating local database

I use Arch on my desktop and installed Signal successfully with

sudo pacman -S signal-desktop

However, on my new Manjaro laptop (Pinebook Pro) I can’t install it (even after updating the local database)

sudo pacman -Syy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                  232.2 KiB  1451 KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100%
 extra                   2.4 MiB  3.24 MiB/s 00:01 [##################] 100%
 community               5.8 MiB  2.42 MiB/s 00:02 [##################] 100%

But signal-desktop cannot be found

sudo pacman -S signal-desktop
error: target not found: signal-desktop

It’s not part of the ARM repositories (yet), but you can find a working version here: https://privacyshark.zero-credibility.net/

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signal-desktop does not appear to be in their aarch64 repo anymore… are there any news on integrating it to the ARM repo? (there’s now a version for Mobian so it’s confirmed to work on ARM)
It would be even nicer now than before since recent desktop versions (5.26 beta+) have collapsible contact bar, which means that they could be used properly on the PinePhone

Signal is not easy to build for aarch64, as it requires a lot of dependencies not in the Arch Linux ARM repositories and it has even had compile issues on aarch64 in the past.

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OK, too bad…
Guess I’ll try the install from the deb file in the meantime.

EDIT: for now the 5.25 version does not work since it requires GLIBCXX_3.4.29 which does not seem to be included in the libstdc++ of the ARM repo yet but some older versions should work.

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