Robert McQueen

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Absolutely agree that Flatpak carrying it's own boutique (and terrible) parser is nothing other than a Flatpak bug; and likely the failure of Flatpak to forsee or avoid this issue...

I would consider having the preinstall.d paths in several locations according to the systemd style precedence of looking for the same-named file in different places (/usr OS controlled, /etc for...

> General question for OS maintainers - for Fedora and RHEL, we treat Flatpaks as a single stream - once Fedora F39 is released, all Fedora Silverblue users get the...

Hi @julianrichen - would it make sense to set up a call together with some Flathub folks? I think we can figure out a path forward that lets Wine be...

Let's at least try and explore the process of running a SRU (stable release update) for 22.04 with a backported/targeted patch to make the older appstream-glib permissive to the new...

> In the meantime, what's the recommended workaround for impatient users? I'm considering building the newest tagged version of flatpak from the code in this repo, following the instructions in...

> Let's at least try and explore the process of running a SRU (stable release update) for 22.04 with a backported/targeted patch to make the older appstream-glib permissive to the...

Thanks for testing! That's a little unfortunate but we can recommend the PPA as an improvement at least. :)

Thanks @smcv, a Debian 11 SRU would be a great template for a corresponding Ubuntu 22.04 SRU and @seb128 has offered to sponsor into Ubuntu if we have a "this...

> I don't think PPAs should be a vehicle for fixing bugs: PPAs should be for feature enhancements and similar larger changes, and long-term-support distributions should take responsibility for doing...