Flatpak support in CI

[David Redondo]

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.
> 
> 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
> 


Hi Ben,

terminating flatpak builds on CI seems overly aggressive to me. I looked at the 
github issue and it seems it was reported against 1.18.2 and  fixed in the next 
release 1.18.3. 
It's not like we are aware immediately of all the bugs we ship in a release 
either not are fixing them all in the next patch release. Breakage can happen 
and lets not hold other free software projects to a higher impossible standard
than ourselves.

My 2ct,
David