Post #3937619

2026-07-19 16:05 UTC

@TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems while I empathize, I'm having difficulties to understand what going on exactly 😕 So we've got this chain of publication: GNOME Calendar -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> Linux Mint Is the issue that Linux Mint did too many changes on an old version? (Which, from what I understand, they didn't do), or is the issue that the version is just too old? (But then, why Debian and Ubuntu don't raise the same issue?) I'm a bit at a loss here as I've read Mint's arguments and they also make sense 😕 I simply want to understand 🙏 There's also the fact that Fedora (the distribution I use and like) got entangled as a "bad downstream" for reasons I also don't understand.

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@SebinNyshkim@meow.social 2026-07-21 15:41

@creak@mstdn.ca @TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems The issue is, Mint is shipping an extremely outdated (4+ years) version of GNOME Calendar because they're against LibAdwaita, as it would mean losing theming for apps. While they absolutely can do that, the GNOME Calendar maintainers are inundated with bug reports from Linux Mint users for bugs that got fixed a long time ago, because the "Report an issue" link in the about window still points to the GNOME Calendar issue tracker, not a Linux Mint one. GNOME Calendar developers got fed up with wasting their time on triaging bug reports and asked Linux Mint to drop or rebrand the Calendar app, so if Linux Mint chooses to ship severely outdated versions of app, it's their problem to deal with. Mint basically evaded requests at every turn, GNOME devs got peeved from the constant goal post shifting by Mint, Mint tone policed and told them to pound sand. It's not an issue of code. It's an issue of attitude and common courtesy of not wasting the time of app developers you rely on to make your distro by being an ass. As for Fedora, they did a similar thing when they shipped either outdated or broken versions of Bottles and OBS Studio via their own Flatpak repo, and users similarly filing bugs for versions the original authors do not control or support. Both asked Fedora to stop that and went unheard for a long time or had to threaten legal action to make themselves heard.

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