Package file-roller for Flathub
Currently, file-roller is distributed as a Flatpak package only in the Fedora registry, built from Fedora RPM sources. That package has many limitations, including:
- It doesn't support localization. The application uses the English locale for all users.
- Because the package is built as an OCI image rather than OSTree, it doesn't support delta updates, and it always downloads the whole image when updating.
- It can't use non-free or patented archive tools such as RAR.
- It isn't practically available to users of distributions outside of Fedora.
It would be nice to have file-roller on Flathub, which would resolve the limitations.
I've noticed that there's already a merge request to add a Flatpak manifest: !4 (closed)
It isn't clear what the progress on that MR is, but it seems that the required changes are in place.
I'm opening this issue for two reasons:
- So that there's an issue associated with the MR and contributors can find it more easily
- Because distributing the package on Flathub is probably a separate task from creating a Flatpak manifest
Thanks in advance for any work that is done on this. If there's something I can help with, let me know.