It would not have made any sense to me for Ubuntu to patch Mutter with
risky backported code in order for a broken Flatpak runtime to work
again anyway. The GNOME 49 runtime introduced this bug, not Ubuntu.

But looking at the communication style in the upstream bug report, after
which it was immediately closed and locked, I'm not very hopeful that
these legacy code paths will be reintroduced.

I hope I'm wrong of course, but they have not particularly left a good
impression with this disregard for backward compatibility with stable
base distros. (Which I think was one of the things Flatpak intended to
solve?)

This bug really affects me too, and also a lot of my customers. And I
can only assume that Flatpak application maintainers expect their
software to work properly on the most widely used distribution (Ubuntu
LTSes). So for GNOME to then cause this kind of breakage in a runtime
many application developers depend upon and say the users should "look
at some other distribution" if the distro won't backport changes with
big regression potential leaves quite a bad aftertaste..

Perhaps insiders can influence this better, but for me trying to explain
to GNOME developers that introducing a regression like this for
something as important as a Flatpak runtime and then shrugging about it
and saying you will never fix it and that users should go and distro hop
isn't really exactly professional to say the least didn't bring me
anywhere.

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