I just released a new version of my app https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.fkoehler.KTailctl which requires a new permission (network access) due to a new feature (fetching user account avatars from an url). A reviewer has rejected this change and thus blocked the release. He simply posed the question why this is new permission is needed. Unfortunately, I cannot find a way to reply and appeal the review.
I fully subscribe to the idea that flatpak apps should have as little permissions as possible and any change to the granted permissions in updated versions should be clearly motivated. But how can I do this? If the feature is too minuscule to justify network access I would be willing to patch it out for the flatpak version but ideally I could retain feature parity with native builds.
Can anyone shed light on how to appeal a review and how to properly declare changes to sandbox permissions? I was not able to find any info by googling and manually browsing the flathub docs, but I probably just missed it…