Hi @tim-janik thanks for your feedback. I agree that it can be cumbersome to
backport applications after the fact, so I am trying to establish a mindset
that applications should be developed against the oldest still-supported
distributions right from the outset.
In some cases this may not be desirable or feasible; for this cases there is
the option to bundle _everything_ with the application, so that it will run on
older systems than the one it was built on, too. We generally don't recommend
this since it will make the AppImages larger than necessary and may have other
downsides, but it is a possibility. Inkscape is using this method, for example.
They are building on a very recent distribution yet their AppImage runs on
distributions as old as 2012.
Please let me know if you are interested in trying this out, since our tools
are currently not fully supporting this, so some manual steps are needed to
make this work.
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