Should I report it if I see any outdated / discontinued apps on flathub? What it flathub's policy on this?

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I’m asking this question because I know that, a lot of times, outdated codebase can involve security issues, so I was wondering. There are several apps I found, some have had their last release 1 or 2 years ago, one had it over 5 years ago (built 3 years ago). Most of them use EOL runtimes, too. Some of them also seem to be discontinued when I visit their github pages (last activity / release long ago, lack of feedback from devs on github issues, etc.)

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If you find something where the app has been discontinued upstream or the GitHub/Gitlab archived/developer deleted their account, you can open a PR to EOL them Maintenance | Flathub Documentation and tag one of the maintainers or the admins to get it merged.

Reporting won’t help much because these need to be individually dealt with by someone.

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you mean, on flathub’s github page, right? In the repository of the app

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Yea like this Mark desktop-files-creator as EOL by yakushabb · Pull Request #16 · flathub/com.github.alexkdeveloper.desktop-files-creator · GitHub

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hmm, I don’t think I can do much more than open a github issue, I’m not a programer or a tech person, so… I’m not sure how to make a PR request like that correctly.