[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#940680: Provide backports for Buster

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:44:08 +0100 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 00:17:00 +0200, ghisvail at gmail.com wrote:
> > Since the release of freedesktop runtime version 19.08, flatpak
attempts
> > to install org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 but fails with the
> > following warning message:
> > 
> > Warning: org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 needs a later flatpak
version
> 
> This will be addressed by flatpak 1.2.5 in the next buster
> point release (see #940818). It should become available soon via
> buster-proposed-updates, if you want to test it early.

I'd be happy to. I have enabled buster-pu and await said update.

> > Would you consider providing backports of newer releases of flatpak
to
> > Buster to bypass future issues with new runtimes?
> 
> I'll probably do a backport eventually, but ideally using backports
> shouldn't be necessary in order to use Flathub, so fixing stable is a
> higher priority for me right now than maintaining backports.

Agreed. As a flatpak maintainer myself, I have not felt the need to
upgrade to a newer release even for development purposes.

Cheers,
Ghis