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Rusty Corgi on Nostr: Wait I'm a little lost, sorry if I'm misunderstanding. Packages aren't just ...

Wait I'm a little lost, sorry if I'm misunderstanding. Packages aren't just statically linked on a system. The job of a maintainer is introducing the newer versions of a package and keeping an eye out to make sure nothing breaks. If they need to patch a library, they don't go and patch every package on the system that relies on that library, they just patch that library and watch for regressions. At least as far as I know. :neodog_googly_shocked:

Flatpak runtimes are a bundle of libraries that applications need to run. Adwaita apps usually need the GNOME runtime, while Qt apps generally use the KDE runtime. They include a lot more than just Qt, so it's considered best practices to keep up with non-EOL runtimes. Whether or not there was a specific security patch, Fedora considers EOL runtimes to be a security issue.

That said, I could be entirely wrong about what Fedora didn't like about OBS's package. It was a bit ago and I haven't gone back and actually read through the trouble ticket.