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Deprecate packages which have a Flatpak alternative #72

Open livingsilver94 opened 1 year ago

livingsilver94 commented 1 year ago

List of packages with a Flatpak alternative:

Packages without an alternative:

maikwoehl commented 1 year ago

Is a dedicated deprecation PR for each package needed or can it be one big PR?

TraceyC77 commented 1 year ago

@maikwoehl - One PR with all the deprecations would work. Before we can deprecate anything, https://github.com/getsolus/3rd-party/issues/74 and https://github.com/getsolus/3rd-party/issues/73 need to be completed.

Staudey commented 10 months ago

Skype has stopped providing .deb packages, and recommends users move to snap

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/all/skype-for-linux-updates/da864865-d9e9-4819-8a5d-8de8934dd312

This will also affect the flatpak as it's built from the .deb

Deprectation PR: #76

Justinzobel commented 10 months ago

This will also affect the flatpak as it's built from the .deb

A flatpak can be built from a snap, as awful as that sounds. The Spotify Flatpak does it.

Staudey commented 10 months ago

Thanks, I wasn't sure whether this was a realistic option. Someone on the Skype flathub repo also mentioned that NordPass does the same thing. Good to know that there will still be a way to avoid snap (as a user, if not during the build) ^^