Bug 402860 - Allow user to revert app version
Summary: Allow user to revert app version
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Discover
Classification: Applications
Component: Flatpak Backend (show other bugs)
Version: 5.14.4
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Aleix Pol
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Reported: 2019-01-04 15:16 UTC by Peter Eszlari
Modified: 2024-07-09 18:56 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Eszlari 2019-01-04 15:16:32 UTC 
On the command line the user is able to choose the commit form the flatpak repository: 

$ flatpak update --commit=<COMMIT> org.example.App

This can be used to go back to a working version of the app. It would be nice, if Discover would provide a way to do that form the GUI.
Comment 1 Aleix Pol 2019-01-07 16:57:52 UTC 
How do you envision this to work? I'm afraid it may pull quite some complex UI for a rather corner-case.
Comment 2 Peter Eszlari 2019-01-07 18:32:04 UTC 
> How do you envision this to work?

Visualize the output of

$ flatpak remote-info --log

and let the user choose the commit?


> for a rather corner-case.

I don't think it's that uncommon. I have seen (and caused) updates at Flathub that broke certain functionality of an app, e.g.:

https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.krita/issues/12

I have also seen it (being able to easily switch app versions) advertised as an advantage that AppImage has over Flatpak.
Comment 3 Peter Eszlari 2019-10-29 21:47:38 UTC 
flatpak 1.5.0 introduced support for version pinning:

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.5.0