On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 23:35 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > Flathub generally requires builds to be done on Flathub's > infrastructure, from source code if possible, in the same way Debian > generally requires builds to be done on buildds, from source if > possible. Are you sure about that? Is there a policy?
> At least one package on Flathub is built on third-party > infrastructure > and directly contributed as binaries even though it is open-source. > The only example I'm aware of is Firefox, which is built by > Mozilla's CI and provided to Flathub as binaries. The Flatpak package for the Signal desktop app is literally built by downloading and unpacking the binary deb from the vendor. https://github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal/blob/master/org.signal.Signal.json Signal itself is open source, but the build process is a complex NPM rabbit hole. Regards