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This is not a good trend

This is not a good trend

Posted Mar 1, 2025 19:03 UTC (Sat) by Mook (subscriber, #71173)
In reply to: This is not a good trend by bgilbert
Parent article: Fedora discusses Flatpak priorities

Per the article, they tried to; a bug was filed, and was either ignored or just shut down.

See also specific comment describing their experience: https://gitlab.com/fedora/sigs/flatpak/fedora-flatpaks/-/...

The issue was that Fedora was shipping broken versions, but making the users think they were getting the upstream version (because it's a Flatpak), so upstream was getting all the bug reports. Historically, when distros ship broken versions (e.g. Debian and keepassxc for a while) at least the users can figure out where the issue lied.

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This is not a good trend

Posted Mar 2, 2025 2:54 UTC (Sun) by bgilbert (subscriber, #4738) [Link]

Those problems aren't new to Flatpaks, though. As long as there have been downstreams, users have misunderstood the ecosystem and reported downstream bugs upstream, and downstreams have been uncooperative (sometimes very uncooperative). None of that is good, and it requires finesse, but it doesn't seem like a problem meriting legal threats.


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