older electron releases crash on some linux systems

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A constellation of known issues in Electron appear to affect the current Linux builds of Tusk, making them unusable on Linux systems with a certain unlucky combination of library versions. I have installed Tusk 0.11.0-472 from the Debian package for amd64 architecture. This package appears to be affected, and the bug presents as immediate segmentation fault on launch. My system is Ubuntu 18.10.

I had the same issue on a different Electron-based application, which was resolved by updating to a newer release of the same package. Based on available information, I expect the reason is a new version of the included the Electron framework, and not updates internal to the application.

Please review the below issues and consider whether a new set of packages can be published with a fixed build of Electron, in order to make Electron usable to a broader range of users.

electron/electron#13972
electron/electron#13972

Some application teams have followed a similar line by addressing the Electron issues within the internal workflow.

BoostIO/BoostNote-Legacy#2603