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Looks like your front-end proxy/anti-scraping software is stopping every attempt at downloading the source tarball for the Flathub build... Any chance you could put out a proper 1.0 tarball somewhere?

github.comUpdate to 1.0 release by hadess · Pull Request #23 · flathub/com.retrodev.blastem

The logs. It worked once, when I switched from downloading the .tar.gz to downloading the .tar.bz2, but it failed on metadata instead, and then tarballs couldn't be downloaded anymore... github.com/flathub/com....

Michael Pavone

@retrodev.com

Ah sorry, it actually wouldn't have helped if it was a normal file because it was a top-level IP block for a bunch of Azure IP ranges. I've removed the particular rule I think it was hitting. Let me know if it still can't fetch the source

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flathub.orgInstall Blastem on Linux | FlathubA Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Master System emulator

That worked! BlastEm 1.0 should be available to all Flathub users in a couple of hours. Thanks for all your work on BlastEm :) flathub.org/en/apps/com....

docs.flathub.orgRequirements | Flathub DocumentationThe goal of these requirements is to ensure that the applications hosted

(And I filed a separate bug about that ugly screenshot in the preview, urgh)

Damian Yerrick

@pineight.com

14 Sept

Speculation as to why they chose a screenshot with no game content: Might there be an unwritten policy to prefer a first screenshot that contains only freely licensed material? I couldn't find any clear guideline about screenshot licensing. docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app...