Why saving a copied optimised file in Inkscape does not keep my image hrefs relative?!?

[Sian-Lee-SA]

Inkscape 1.0 I could save optmised with no problems and my paths didn't change etc and stayed relative... Now I update inkscape and everytime I save as optimised it keeps changing the image href's from a relative path to a full absolute path with 'file://' at the start... WHY? It's screwing with my web development and I can't find an option to stop it. I cant fathom or understand why it would even do this when relative is always going to be more stable than an absolute path regardless if it's web development or not... In web development, using a file system absolute path would never work.

[Pacomatic1]

Scour is used in Inkscape, but that does not mean that Inkscape gives you complete control over Scour's options.
So is this Inkscape's fault, or Scour's fault?
I recommend re-simplifying it while using the same options between the Scour CLI and Inkscape's menu. Also be sure to check the Scour documentation.
Also, Inkscape nowadays has the option to embed the image in the SVG, so you can do that as well if you'd like to.

If this is Inkscape's fault, go file a bug report on the Inkscape repository, not here.