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Sebastian Wick
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We have two use cases for removing refs: uninstalling, and pruning of undeployed refs. Pruning undeployed refs is something we want anyone to be able to do, because they can also pull updates and then not deploy them. Uninstalling arbitrary refs on the other hand is problematic, and its possible to remove the AppStream ref, and a deployed ref. So we split removing a ref into a function which removes any ref, and use it internally to implement e.g. uninstalling, and a function to remove refs which are safe to remove. Only the latter one will escalate through the system helper, making it harder for unprivileged users to get into a state which can be exploited. See the previous commit for such a state. Resolves: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-q4gr-vc25-57m5
Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux.
See https://flatpak.org/ for more information.
Flatpak is available in the package repositories of most Linux distributions and can be installed from there. See https://flatpak.org/setup/ for quick setup instructions for many distributions.
Community discussion happens in #flatpak:matrix.org, on the mailing list, and on the Flathub Discourse.
Read documentation for Flatpak here.
Contributing
Flatpak welcomes contributions from anyone! Here are some ways you can help:
- Fix one of the issues and submit a PR
- Update flatpak's translations and submit a PR
- Improve flatpak's documentation, hosted at http://docs.flatpak.org and developed over in flatpak-docs
- Find a bug and submit a detailed report including your OS, flatpak version, and the steps to reproduce
- Add your favorite application to Flathub by writing a flatpak-builder manifest and submitting it
- Improve the Flatpak support in your favorite Linux distribution
Hacking
See CONTRIBUTING.md
Related Projects
Here are some notable projects in the Flatpak ecosystem:
- Flatseal: An app for managing permissions of Flatpak apps without using the CLI
- Flat-manager: A tool for managing Flatpak repositories