Planning for flatpak 1.10

[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 2020-08-24 at 12:27 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-08-24 at 11:47 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > I also want need to make a pass over the terminal output/redraw
> > handling in flatpak, as it needs some polish.
> 
> I think we will also need to look at making sure that we handle
> default
> git branches that aren't called "master" (I believe in flatpak, and
> flatpak-builder) and consider whether we want to also move the
> default
> ostree repo default branch name.

I don't think flatpak does any git call-out, those are all in flatpak-
builder i believe. However, fixing that is kinda tricky. If you specify
nothing it always expands it to master in the code, rather than "pass
nothing for branch, and then see what you get". So while you can change
the branch and handle non-master branches, its a bit more work to
handle non-master default in a good way. Also, the git code is less
than obvious as it does local mirroring and shallow pulls.

For ostree branches, we do default to "master" in some cases. I guess
it might be interesting to see what we can do about that. However, for
flathub we don't actually use master, but rather "stable" and "beta".