Post B1vyW7iWQFs6Df30Zk by nekohayo@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B1vyW6K1bqgLtOZvkm by nekohayo@mastodon.social
       2025-12-30T22:15:00Z
       
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       FLOSS #MaintainerLife public service advisory:If you're filing a potential bug upstream in #GNOME, particularly on rapidly-improving apps like GNOME Calendar, please test the latest version, unmodified by third-parties. #Flatpak helps.Don't come at me with a 4-years-old version cowboy-patched against our will by #Linux distros like Mint; I will send you downstream, like this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1526#note_2640160#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #QA #bugreporting #LinuxMint #Debian #Ubuntu #LTS #GNOMECalendar
       
 (DIR) Post #B1vyW7iWQFs6Df30Zk by nekohayo@mastodon.social
       2026-01-03T13:35:01Z
       
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       Runner up in "problematic downstream/distros packaging behavior" is #Canonical insisting on packaging old buggy versions in #Ubuntu using their endemic #Snap format. Ex.: https://snapcraft.io/gnome-calendarIt'd be really nice if they'd stop doing that, this is absolutely detrimental to the app's developers.#SnapCraft creates confusion, until users eventually go out of their way to surgically remove it from their desktop OS in the same way Raiden rips out spines to acquire electrolytes.#Snap #Linux