Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

Posted Feb 8, 2023 20:03 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks by SLi
Parent article: Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

This is also made more complicated by distros backporting fixes to libraries, blowing up the testing matrix even further.

Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

Posted Feb 9, 2023 10:37 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

And, thanks to distro engineers being humans too, some of those backports will introduce new bugs that aren't present in any upstream version of the library. So even if I've tested and confirmed everything works on library versions 1.21 and 1.22 from upstream, a distribution's version of 1.21-2 with a fix backported from upstream 1.22, but otherwise the same as upstream 1.21 may exhibit the bug.