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    [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Oh god, how bad flatpak is. I say this as someone who used to head up a security group for an OS.

    [–] brian@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    do you have anything to back this up other than a fuzzy claim of authority? so far when I see people say things like this they're always talking about a handful of since fixed vulnerabilities early on in the project

    [–] nickiam2@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Every time I update my flatpak apps I get a warning about deprecated libraries. I don't think flatpak is the issue but rather apps being able to not update really old libraries that could have security patches available. Does anyone know of a way to force these old libraries to update?

    [–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    On Flatpak? Probably not. You update those libraries, even manually, and things will most probably break.

    One of the many reasons I don't like Flatpak. You really don't have any control over how these packages are delivered. What the package maintainer did, that is it. But there's a new version. Nope, not if the package maintainer doesn't update.