Package: gnome-software Version: 41.2-1 Severity: whishlist
Dear Maintainers,By default, if package gnome-software-plugin-flatpak is installed and if a Flathpak repository is configured, Gnome Software will prefer Flatpak packages over Debian packages.
While I am really glad that Flatpak exists, it has some disadvantages compared to Debian packages:
- network usage for installation - disk usage - system integration issuesRecently, a dconf setting appeared in Gnome Software, with a detailed rationale, so that user can choose that Flatpak should not be the preferred packaging system[1].
As explained in the mentioned link, I also believe that there are more often issues with Flatpak packages than with Debian packages (I can give examples if requested). That is why I suggest that Debian should ship Gnome Software defaulting to install Debian packages.
1. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/1005 Regards, Yvan -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARNLocale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages gnome-software depends on: ii appstream 0.15.0-1 ii apt-config-icons 0.15.0-1 ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-2 ii gnome-software-common 41.2-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 41.0-2 ii libappstream4 0.15.0-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-3 ii libc6 2.32-5 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-5 ii libfwupd2 1.5.7-5 ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.6+dfsg-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.70.2-1 ii libgspell-1-2 1.9.1-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.30-4 ii libgtk3-perl 0.038-1 ii libgudev-1.0-0 237-2 ii libhandy-1-0 1.5.0-1 ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.6.6-1 ii libmalcontent-0-0 0.10.3-1 ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.2.4-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.48.10+ds1-1 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-31 ii libsoup2.4-1 2.74.2-1 ii libxmlb2 0.3.6-1 ii packagekit 1.2.4-1 ii software-properties-gtk 0.96.20.2-2.1 Versions of packages gnome-software recommends: ii fwupd 1.5.7-5 Versions of packages gnome-software suggests: pn apt-config-icons-hidpi <none> ii gnome-software-plugin-flatpak 41.2-1 pn gnome-software-plugin-snap <none> -- no debconf information
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