Flatpak support in CI

[Benson Muite]

Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> writes:

Hi Ben,

> On Wed, Oct 7, 2026 at 9:39 PM David Redondo <kde at david-redondo.de> wrote:
>
>> Am Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2026, 10:13 schrieb Ben Cooksley:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > This evening I have fixed the broken Flatpak builds.
>> >
>> > This breakage was caused by a regression shipped by Flatpak itself, which
>> > Fedora incorporated and was too slow in shipping the fix for. See
>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2528386 and
>> > https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/6818
>> >
>> > It only surfaced for us recently because we had previously been using an
>> > older version of Fedora for our build image.
>> >
>> > Updating that was necessary to get a new version of flatpak-builder,
>> which
>> > fixed yet another regression that was causing the Flatpak KDE Runtime to
>> > fail to build.
>> >
>> > We had up until the Fedora update been forcibly downgrading from the most
>> > recent Flatpak Builder version available (which was old) to get a version
>> > that did not have the breakage in it to keep that working.
>> >
>> > This is a situation that is unsustainable, and the shipping of two
>> > regression containing releases in the last few months is, quite frankly,
>> > unacceptable. Not to mention a significant waste of my time when people
>> ask
>> > me why it is broken - for which there are much better uses.
>> >
>> > Those who are advocates for Flatpak should have a serious discussion with
>> > the Flatpak developers regarding their release QA processes, which are
>> not
>> > sufficient to catch regressions with significant impact.
>> >
>> > I would suggest they incorporate builds of some KDE Flatpaks as a minimum
>> > baseline.

Fedora does ship Kinoite, an immutable KDE desktop that uses Flatpaks.
As Fedora is community driven, occasionally one needs to ping people to
get bugs fixed.  There is a KDE SIG for Fedora:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE
co-ordination with them on Flatpaks and Kinoite might be one way to make
progress.

>> >
>> > Should this pattern of Flatpak releases containing severe regressions
>> > continue we will need to revisit the subject of Flatpak CI with a view to
>> > terminating it, including the Runtime builds.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Ben
>> >