Post #3276461
2026-04-30 08:32 UTC
@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
Working with the reliable trusted upstream is always nice. And it is not a big problem for any form of the distribution.
Packaging a well-designed, well-licensed and well-versioned app into a rpm or deb is a no brainer too. And upstream first policy in Fedora specifically discourages any changes to such upstream code because there is no justification for them.
But this thread started with a question, what happens when upstream fails in some way.
@jcm @vwbusguy@mastodon.online
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@bookwar@floss.social 2026-04-30 08:34
@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud I think one of the big reasons why Flatpak conversations become so unnecessary heated is that somehow folks take that question too personally. No, we don't claim that all upstream developers are unreliable. But we need to build a system which survives when one of the upstreams becomes unreliable. It doesn't survive it by "packagers being better", it survives by the org structure being built for it. And "we" here - is "anyone who is distributing something" @jcm @vwbusguy@mastodon.online