@Nick-Hall Perhaps I misunderstood, but I thought you wanted a week to review major flatpak updates at the Gramps-Project github before any push to flathub. I made a PR for 6.0.0 a week ago, then waited a week before pushing to flathub. Gramps update to 6.0.0-0 by OzarkShepherd · Pull Request #47 · gramps-project/flatpak · GitHub It wasn’t just a version update, but most dependencies and the Gnome Runtime also got updated, along with the addition of orjson. So I figured it was in the major update category that should get a week review. Let me know if I misunderstood.
Anyways, I get that people have their packaging preferences. I personally hated the early versions of snap so much that it was the final straw that led me to abandoning Ubuntu altogether. I also have been dissatisfied by every Appimage I tried personally, for reasons I won’t go into now. But even though I prefer flatpaks for my own use and refuse to use Snaps, I understand that other people have their own reasons for disliking flatpaks and having their own preferences. Linux is all about more choices. So I can honestly say it is too bad for the debian ecosystem that a deb for the 24.04 LTS can’t be compiled until they add orjson to the repository. It isn’t in debian stable either yet, just testing and unstable. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python3-orjson However, the current debian testing (Debian 13 Trixie) will become Debian stable in summer 2025. Perhaps a .deb file could be made for the latest Gramps release for Debian 13 once it becomes the stable version this summer, since Trixie has python3-orjson. Linux Mint’s LMDE 7 will be based on Debian 13, so LMDE 7 will be released several months after Debian 13 becomes the Debian stable version. So a Gramps 6 .deb for Debian 13 and therefore Linux Mint LMDE 7 should be feasible by the end of this year.
Since Gramps is a volunteer project, it would be nice if someone came along who is willing to make an Appimage or Snap. Still, I appreciate that the linux world gives a choice between rock solid distros (like Debian Stable, LM, etc) with older but very stable packages, and the testing distros with the latest packages that don’t have all the bugs worked out (like debian testing and Fedora).