Distbin update - "this app does not exist"

[hermann-san]

What type of hardware are you using: VPS bought online
What YunoHost version are you running: 12.1.15.1 (stable)
What app is this about: Distbin

Describe your issue

Hi,
when updating my apps in Webadmin, I get an error message for Distbin, saying that Distbin doesn’t exist (anymore)

I’ve tried the following command, which works fine, but the error message is still there in the webadmin
yunohost app upgrade distbin -u GitHub - YunoHost-Apps/distbin_ynh: Distributed pastebin with ActivityPub for YunoHost

Share relevant logs or error messages

Distbin (distbin)

This app does not exists (anymore?) in the catalog, you must therefore take care of upgrades manually.
From the command line, you can use yunohost app upgrade <app> and provide the url of the repo using the -u option.

(node:381760) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'padLevels' of module exports inside circular dependency
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
https://domain.de/distbin/
::ffff:127.0.0.1 - testuser [14/Mar/2025:18:48:50 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 - "https://domain.de/yunohost/sso/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0"
(node:572) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'padLevels' of module exports inside circular dependency
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
https://domain.de/distbin/
::ffff:127.0.0.1 - - [23/Aug/2025:16:40:53 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "Go-http-client/1.1"
::ffff:127.0.0.1 - - [23/Aug/2025:16:40:54 +0000] "GET /sitemap.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "Go-http-client/1.1"
::ffff:127.0.0.1 - - [23/Aug/2025:16:40:54 +0000] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "Go-http-client/1.1"
::ffff:127.0.0.1 - admin[30/Aug/2025:14:33:51 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:142.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/142.0"
(node:2333649) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'padLevels' of module exports inside circular dependency
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)

[Aleks]

It’s been flagged as deprecated since a year on our side and be recently moved to the graveyard … the distbin_ynh may still exist but the “real” catalog is apps/apps.toml at main · YunoHost/apps · GitHub (which doesn’t contain distbin) anymore

The reason for which it’s been flagged as deprecated is that there hasnt been any activity on the upstream repo (GitHub - gobengo/distbin: distributed social pastebin using Activitypub) since several years

It doesn’t mean that you can’t keep using the app as is … but the app won’t receive any upgrade and will slowly start breaking or become incompatible with the yunohost ecosystem over time

[hermann-san]

did I really ignore this for 1 year?
Thanks for your explanation.

There seem to be plenty of other bin apps in the YH catalog.

[Aleks]

It’s not clear to me wether we display anything anywhere in the webadmin when installed apps are deprecated … I’ll try to have a look into it