For those wondering: I should've realized this much earlier, the importance being 'Low' is not some sort of anti-Flatpak conspiracy, it's because the bug satisfies the criteria for Low importance as per: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance
'Bugs that affect unusual end-user configurations or uncommon hardware Bugs that affect a non-essential aspect and limited scope of the application Non-ideal default configuration' Though I think there's a case to make this higher importance: 'A bug that has a moderate impact on a core application' (Medium) 'Has a severe impact on a small portion of Ubuntu users (estimated)' (High) 'Renders essential features or functionality of the application or dependencies broken or ineffective' (High) - some would consider installing Flatpaks from their software center an 'essential feature', even if Flatpak and the plugin in question are in universe not main. (High) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1716409 Title: Unable to install flatpakref on Ubuntu artful Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gnome-software source package in Artful: Triaged Bug description: I saw a news article with a link to install a flatpak. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/download-pithos-pandora-app-1-4 I clicked the link expecting to be able to install the flatpak, but the experience appears broken. I'm on an up to date Artful install What I did was:- Click on http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/download-pithos-pandora-app-1-4 Click the flathub link:- https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/io.github.Pithos.flatpakref This downloaded the flatpakref file. I clicked the file in my browser, nothing happened I then tried finding the file in nautilus and double clicked it. GNOME Software launched and presented an error "Don't know how to handle 'file:///home/alan/Downloads/io.github.Pithos.flatpakref' (see screenshot). If I search for pithos in GNOME Software I am able to find the older version from the deb repo, but not the newer version from flathub. Do we not support flatpak/flathub out of the box? Or is my system uniquely hosed? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1716409/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp