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

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

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On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 16:08 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks.

> > 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.

Sure thanks. I'll file it upstream. I tend to talk to the Debian Maintainers
before taking things upstream, especially if I haven't much worked with the
Debian Maintainer before.

Thanks again for maintaining Flatpak.

- -- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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