Re: [hatari-devel] Building Hatari as a flatpak package

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 14.4.2021 14.34, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> Le 14/04/2021 à 12:55, Jacob Zimmermann a écrit :
> > Dear Hatari developers
> >
> > I have built a Flatpak package of Hatari and would like to release it 
> > through the flathub <https://flathub.org> repository so that other 
> > Linux users can benefit from the easy installation and automatic 
> > upgrades. Do you have any objection against me releasing it under the 
> > terms of the GPL? If you would prefer to release and maintain the 
> > package yourselves, I would be happy to hand it over to you of course.
> >
> > Note that this does not involve adding any flatpak-related files to 
> > the upstream Hatari source; the packaging will be maintained 
> > separately. The proposed package name on flathub is org.tuxfamily.hatari.
>
> unless others object, this looks fine to me.
>
> Also I don't think we have time to maintain/release such flatpak package 
> ourselves, so it's good if you can do it yourself.

Just make sure that documentation clearly states you're maintaining the 
flatpak packaging, not us!

Btw. do you use binary packages from some distro
in flatpak, or compile it from source?


	- Eero