etcher: remove

[wegank]

Description of changes

#295770

Also closes #261626, since the issue with Electron 25 (still EOL) was never fixed upstream.

Things done

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
  • x86_64-darwin
  • aarch64-darwin
• For non-Linux: Is sandboxing enabled in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
  • sandbox = relaxed
  • sandbox = true
• Tested, as applicable:
  • NixOS test(s) (look inside nixos/tests)
  • and/or package tests
  • or, for functions and "core" functionality, tests in lib/tests or pkgs/test
  • made sure NixOS tests are linked to the relevant packages
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
• Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 24.05 Release Notes (or backporting 23.05 and 23.11 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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[dotlambda]

Even though I don't use etcher I assume it's a very popular application. Maybe we can package a 1.19 pre-release? It also might be possible to build from source.

[wegank]

All 1.19 pre-releases use Electron 25 (EOL in Nixpkgs) and are subject to balena-io/etcher#4150, making the bump failing for users on every other Linux distro (which is why Etcher is at 1.18.14 on Repology, and even that doesn't work). My previous attempt can be found at #261626.

From my experience, building from source offline isn't possible since 1.18.12, due to the transition from package-lock.json to the incomplete npm-shrinkwrap.json, and even for 1.18.11, the source-built Etcher failed to flash any drives for obscure reasons.

I've also tried using the appimage, which succeeded at every step before flashing, which failed due to an unresolved issue: #205082. I think that's the only direction to go, if anyone wants to play around.

So as the maintainer of etcher, I basically found no way to bump this package but keep it at version 1.18.12. I'd suggest existing users (are there really any?) switch to better alternatives, such as rpi-imager.