[Bug 47000] New: Make WineHQ available as flatpak in Flathub

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47000

Bug ID: 47000
           Summary: Make WineHQ available as flatpak in Flathub
           Product: Packaging
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-packages
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Hi.

I would like, here, to suggest to make WineHQ available as flatpak in Flathub.

This will be very useful since flatpak is secure & sandboxed, so user will be a
way from infect heir/his PC by a virus or spywar. If flatpak Wine run a virus,
then it will be like if Wine sandboxed by firejail run such virus.

Moreover, flatpak can minimize time & efforts in packaging because it is a
generic package working in many Linux distro regardless OS version.

Also, Wine contain huge number of 32 bit packages that are, mostly, not needed
by any other application.

[Bug 47000] Make WineHQ available as flatpak in Flathub

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47000

Olivier F. R. Dierick  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Olivier F. R. Dierick  ---
(In reply to yousifjkadom from comment #0)
> Moreover, flatpak can minimize time & efforts in packaging because it is a
> generic package working in many Linux distro regardless OS version.

Really? I don't think that adding yet another fancy package format to the list
of packages that the WineHQ packagers have to maintain will minimize time and
efforts.

[Bug 47000] Make WineHQ available as flatpak in Flathub

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47000

Rosanne DiMesio  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Rosanne DiMesio  ---
(In reply to Olivier F. R. Dierick from comment #1)
> Really? I don't think that adding yet another fancy package format to the
> list of packages that the WineHQ packagers have to maintain will minimize
> time and efforts.

It won't, and there is already a third party project packaging Wine in flatpaks
(www.winepak.org). There is no point in duplicating their efforts.

[Bug 47000] Make WineHQ available as flatpak in Flathub

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47000

Rosanne DiMesio  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Rosanne DiMesio  ---
Closing.

[Bug 47000] Make WineHQ available as flatpak in Flathub

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47000

--- Comment #4 from [e-mail] ---
You did not understood me !

I meant to stop from making Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, ------ other distro
specific package & replace them by universal package that sandbox by default.
This what I meant.

Instead of making many distro specific packages as currently you doing, make
single universal package for all Linux distros. Does this will minimize your
time packaging or I'm wrong ?

Regarding www.winepak.org we have 2 issues:

1) winepak try to make each single Windows available by separated wine included
in single flatpak package, which mean that users not allowed to install any
Windows application they like ! This great shortage ! In fact there are very
limited supported Windows application available till now ! All my favourite
Windows applications are not yet supported & I have to wait till they supported
!!! This is not practical !

2) it seem that winepak is dead !

Moreover, we have already Wine derivative already available on Flathub called
"Pheonicis PlayOnLinux" you did not mention it though it is still viable &
maintained ! But same shortage: it do not allow users to install any Windows
application they need ! Only supported applications ! It act like software
centre with limited number of supported application !

Please to review this replay from your side.

[Bug 47000] Make WineHQ available as flatpak in Flathub

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47000

--- Comment #5 from Olivier F. R. Dierick  ---
(In reply to yousifjkadom from comment #4)
> I meant to stop from making Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, ------ other distro
> specific package & replace them by universal package that sandbox by
> default. This what I meant.
>
> Instead of making many distro specific packages as currently you doing, make
> single universal package for all Linux distros. Does this will minimize your
> time packaging or I'm wrong ?

That's unrealistic.
You can't expect the Wine project to stop supporting the vast majority of users
that use their distro package manager to install software in favor of a niche
container format anytime soon.

[Bug 47000] Make WineHQ available as flatpak in Flathub

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47000

--- Comment #6 from Olivier F. R. Dierick  ---
(In reply to yousifjkadom from comment #4)
> Please to review this replay from your side.

Anyone is free to build a generic Wine flatpak and submit it to Flathub.
It's just that it's outside the scope of the Wine project and should be a
project of its own (Though it is rather daunting, by the looks of the flatpak
building documentation).

[Bug 47000] Make WineHQ available as flatpak in Flathub

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47000

Peter Eszlari  changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Peter Eszlari  ---
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54674