Remove EOL nautilus 3.28 in flathub

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Looks like the old version of nautilus is still there.

Provide a Nautilus flatpak package on Flathub addresses getting the recent / latest versions of nautilus in flathub, but until then the 3.28 entry should be removed from flathub, as it’s confusing.

Additional info:

$ flatpak install org.gnome.Nautilus
Looking for matches…

Info: app org.gnome.Nautilus branch stable is end-of-life, with reason:
   Nautilus is improving Flatpak integration before delivering it as stable, in the meantime the maintainers encourage you to test the development version from https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-apps-nightly.flatpakrepo
Required runtime for org.gnome.Nautilus/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.28) found in remote flathub
Do you want to install it? [Y/n]: ^C

$ flatpak remote-info flathub org.gnome.Nautilus
         ID: org.gnome.Nautilus
        Ref: app/org.gnome.Nautilus/x86_64/stable
       Arch: x86_64
     Branch: stable
 Collection: org.flathub.Stable
   Download: 5.9 MB
  Installed: 18.7 MB
    Runtime: org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.28
        Sdk: org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/3.28

     Commit: ed5eb907cf9cd8ab7deff12891efd73699a647efe35d3843aadf594e87b51a4e
     Parent: 70a3f2ec2e35e198874d63a732c9deb73adb1d36c3707f6b70b95a3e09ce764b
End-of-life: Nautilus is improving Flatpak integration before delivering it as stable, in the meantime the maintainers encourage you to test the development version from https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-apps-nightly…
    Subject: Mark nautilus as end-of-life in the repo (691dce1d)
       Date: 2018-05-03 09:31:50 +0000
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Hi, do you know if it has been removed in the meantime? Searching for nautilus or Files on flathub doesn’t yield any results.

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It’s still there. You can try the commands in the original post above

Flathub website probably doesn’t list EOL entries, but it’s still possible to install them from command line.

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I have poked around a bit on the flathub forum and only found this on the topic Suggestion: exclude very old runtimes and related apps - #2 by bbhtt - Flathub Discourse

I guess if it’s not really exposed anywhere it’s probably fine to just leave it as is, or do you see any real issues with it?

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flatpak install nautilus will install it. Not everybody uses Software or the Flathub website to find/install apps.

The notice it gives:

Nautilus is improving Flatpak integration before delivering it as stable, in the meantime the maintainers encourage you to test the development version from https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-apps-nightly.flatpakrepo

One could assume that first part means this is a beta version.

Is there still work ongoing to bring current Nautilus to Flathub? If not why not remove the EOL cruft.

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There’s no one currently actively working on flatpaking, no. I am not too worried about users that install nautilus from the CLI not being able to figure out that its outdated, but they indeed might only notice afterwards.

I’ll inquire on the flathub forum what they think of removing it.

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See EOL Nautilus version removal - Flathub Discourse