Packaging LTS versions of software

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 1:50 PM Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 10:40 PM Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> >
> > Dear flatpakers,
> > I keep getting requests [1] to package the LTS version of this
> > software besides the last stable version of it.
> >
> > Does anyone know how that would work?
>
> I can't speak to whether this is the right thing to do, but in
> practice this is possible in two ways. Either you package it with the
> same app id but a different branchname. I'm not sure how well this
> works with the flathub builssystem atm. I mean, we do support this for
> e.g. extensions and runtimes (where you need a custom branch name). I
> *think* it may work if you store your lts files on a git branch called
> e.g. "branch/lts", but it would need some testing.
>
> Alternatively you can create a separate app id for the lts version and
> treat it as a completely separate app.
>
> Which you choose is up to you, if you use multiple app ids they both
> get visible as two parallell desktop files, but can't typically see
> each others files, whereas if you use a branchname only one is active
> (startable via desktop file) at once.

Hi,
I decided to give it a go with using the same app id.
I created such a branch here:
https://github.com/flathub/org.qgis.qgis/tree/branch/stable

How should I proceed now so flathub takes notice?

(Very belated) Thanks!
Aleix