It's not so severe since apturl is still installed by default and seems to take precedence, meaning that apt://foo does actually still work.
-- 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/1726405 Title: Doesn't handle apt:// URLs any more Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I think we must have regressed this when we switched to PK. The PK plugin doesn't handle launching from a URL. That is, $ gnome-software apt://foo doesn't work. I asked hughsie and he said it was OK to add this feature upstream. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1726405/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

