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I'm currently the maintainer of the whalebird desktop flatpak. I've had a lot of difficulty since the introduction of better-sqlite prebuilts as a dependency to keep the flatpak up to date. A update of the flatpak involves the following steps
- update my local clone of whalebird-desktop to the latest version.
- use flatpak-builder-tools to generate a generated-sources.json to fetch all the deps.
- build, only for it to fail sometimes because the prebuilt requested by better-sqlite has changed
- update the better-sqlite dependancy
- test that everything works
- rebuild again before pring the flathub repo and publishing
with the recent update I can no longer do step 5. I run iceshrimp a fork of misskey with some of the best mastodon compact out there. v5.1.0 removed support for misskey and seems to have ensured any fork of misskey with mastodon api support will be considered misskey and it will refuse to connect.
This is the straw that broke the camels back for me. With work and such I already had very little time to ensure everything works. I feel it would be a disservice to users to publish software I no longer use and can no longer ensure works. Going forward someone needs to be found who is trusted and more involved upstream and can ensure that the flatpak is up to date.
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Lunarequest commentedon Oct 7, 2023
as of writing v5.1.0 has been merged into the repo, going forward this ideally should be the last release I'll work on. I'm willing to continue maintaining it until a suitable replacement maintainer is found
h3poteto commentedon Oct 8, 2023
By the way, Iceshrimp is a fork of Misskey? or a fork of Firefish?
If it is a fork of Firefish, we can support it.
Lunarequest commentedon Oct 8, 2023
It is a fork of firefish
h3poteto commentedon Oct 8, 2023
Which Iceshrimp server are you using? I want to check it.
Lunarequest commentedon Oct 8, 2023
It is a fork of firefish i'm using a single user instance social.nullrequest.com
h3poteto commentedon Oct 10, 2023
Can you please try 5.1.1?
https://github.com/h3poteto/whalebird-desktop/releases/tag/v5.1.1
Lunarequest commentedon Oct 11, 2023
just going through the changes it looks like you've set the default instance for iceshrimp to be
https://iceshrimp.socialbut to be clear they aren't the official instance. The closest to a offical instance is https://estrogen.network but we don't have a official instance and don't plan to any time soonh3poteto commentedon Jan 24, 2024
@Lunarequest Hi, I released the new version of Whalebird, 6.0.0. It doesn't contain better-sqlite, so will this make your job easier?
Lunarequest commentedon Jan 26, 2024
Finally got some free time I'll update the flatpak. Like I said my time is slowly becoming more and more stretched and will be for the next few years. I will maintain this flatpak until someone is found to replace me or my other commitments become lessened(this is unlikely for a few years)
K0-RR commentedon Sep 5, 2024
Hi, it seems the flatpak version is now really outdated.
Is it possible for You to update it at least this one time?
RangHo commentedon Feb 25, 2025
Hi, I have just created a pull request: flathub/social.whalebird.WhalebirdDesktop#23!
Since a lot of dependencies have changed (including the removal of
better-sqlite3), for the PR I have decided to drop the building step altogether and use the tagged artifacts from this repository. For more information, please have a look at the PR.On a side note, if we were to change how Flatpak packages are built, I think it is more sensible to move the files in
flatpak-datadirectory to the manifest repository. Let me know what you guys think!