Repeating update for Qbittorent

Mar 8, 2025 Closed
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My current Debian 12 machine has Qbittorent 5.04 and twice i have seen Qbittorent show in the update list when performing a flatpak update. I see in the list qbittorent stable but no update is performed for Qbittorent it remains at version 5.04 as of March-2025

What is occurring that flatpak update believes there is an update for an app?

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Flatpak does not operate on version numbers, and there are many reasons why an app could be updated without its upstream version changing, e.g. updating a dependency: