[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#850042: flatpak: download resumption support

[Simon McVittie]

Control: reassign 850042 libostree-1-1 2016.15-2
Control: forwarded 850042 https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/639

On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 at 19:35:00 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Since it is talking over http, it would be much convenient if it
> supported resumption of interrupted downloads.

The download part of Flatpak is done by OSTree, which I believe does
incremental download but only at a per-file granuarity (a file is either
fully downloaded or not, and partial files are not kept). I've sent that
feature request upstream.

> I also have one more suggestion and am squeezing in here. If you want a
> separate bug report, please let me know. I'll do it.
> 
> flatpak --user should be the default mode than flatpak --system.
> The prime use case of flatpak is to help users get new/latest software.
> If an admin wants to make a flatpak available to all users on the
> system, it should be an extra option to pass, i.e. flatpak --system

This is not an appropriate thing to change in Debian: it should change
upstream or not at all.

If you would like behaviour changes, please consider sending the initial
report upstream rather than to Debian. If I forward a request like this
for a change that I do not have a strong opinion on, I am unlikely to
do a good job of justifying why the change should happen, which could
lead to it being rejected when a request directly from you might
have got it accepted - so I'm not going to forward this immediately,
to give you a chance to advocate it upstream better than I could.

Thanks,
    S