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The OBS Studio open-source screencasting and streaming app has called out Fedora's poor Flatpak packaging of the application and is threatening as going as far as legal action if it isn't addressed.
Flathub in Discover app on Fedora KDE:
Kinda arrogant to host their own OBS Flatpak that doesn't work as it should and redirecting users to it when using the GUI.
And as they are a version behind in their own "Fedora Flatpaks" it now loops too:
Why does fedora have it’s own flatpak repo?
Because with the immutable distros .rpm isn't a good match but they still want to make use of their own controls and security regarding packages. Fedora Flatpaks are built from Fedora rpms.
This security of their own caused them to update an EOL runtime into a newer version that had regressions and caused OBS to not function properly leading to the article in the OP.
After the article posted the Fedora flatpak maintainer and OBS has made plans to talk about the situation on Matrix, so I think it'll all solve itself nicely in the end.
Fedora should honestly just default to Flathub and remove their own repo.
Centralization is not a good thing IMO. Im glad Fedora is bothering to maintain their own repo no matter how useless we find it.
What is good is users having a choice, but Fedora Flatpaks are the default choice and users have no way to change it. Many don't even realize they are using them instead of the official ones from Flathub.
Users actually do have the option to change it, you can change both the order, disable their own flatpak repo and decide if you want rpm or flatpak as the default source. If you do disable their flatpak repo the warning shown in the OP disappears:
TIL that Discover let's you change it. AFAIK there's no way in Gnome Software though
Ah, I haven't looked into disabling Fedora Flatpaks in GNOME Software. A quick search only returns how to remove it all together and not sure how the GNOME Software reacts to doing that.
WARNING - THIS WILL REMOVE ANY FLATPAKS INSTALLED FROM FEDORA FLATPAKS
flatpak remote-delete fedora
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
That's a good point but Fedora is doing it in a not so clear way. They have to tell that the packages are unofficial.
Honestly they should make it closer to F-droid. They already have only Foss software on it now all they need to do is implement strong privacy and security rules.
I second that :D
It needs an actual purpose
There's probably more to the story as to why Fedora started their own flatpak repo in the first place. I can't imagine it was for shits and giggles. Anybody have insight into this?
Some discussion here:
https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463#comment-955522
https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463#comment-955412
Basically OBS used an EOL Runtime as the newer version had regressions causing OBS to not work properly.
It was due to there stance on non free software. The have since weakened that stance.
Because of Atomic right?