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Element app updating backwards on Debian 12 KDE? (lemmy.giftedmc.com)

submitted 8 months ago by haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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This might be a real stupid question but why is discover updating to a lower version? Is there any place I can read up why this is the case?

P.S.: Yes, I could have absolutely google this but lemmy is about more than just shitposts and memes imo. Asking some rather noobish questions will make us appear on google btw.

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[–] isgleas@lemmy.ml 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It is called "downgrading", and it is not uncommon to have some packages downgrading when updating/upgrading a system, due to several reasons.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

No. This is just a thing Discover does. Unless nearly every update I've done for every Flatpak I have installed on my Steam Deck have actually been downgrades.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 13 points 8 months ago

As someone else pointed out, its a bug and mentioned on the kde bugtracker.

[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

No, it's just a (long fixed!) bug. In the case of the Deck, the next version of SteamOS comes with the fix soon... in the case of Debian, they don't ship our bugfix releases, so it'll be stuck with this until Debian 13 :/

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Under what circumstances? I don't think I've ever seen a package downgraded during an upgrade.

[–] isgleas@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I somehow missed this to be a flatpak via Discover. Granted this may not be usual in distros with a traditional update model, downgrading packages may be present in rolling distros, or distros with overlapping minor versions, or having 3rd party repos providing conflicting packages to those of the distro.

I offer my system as example:

The following product is going to be upgraded:
  openSUSE Tumbleweed  20240211-0 -> 20240313-0

The following 14 packages are going to be downgraded:
  ghc-binary ghc-containers ghc-deepseq ghc-directory ghc-exceptions ghc-mtl ghc-parsec ghc-pretty ghc-process ghc-stm ghc-template-haskell ghc-text ghc-time ghc-transformers