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Re: What's going on with snapd?

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On Lu, 26 oct 20, 15:24:24, Brian Vaughan wrote:
> Recently I wanted to try out an open source game that was being distributed
> as a snap package, so I tried installing snapd. It apparently installed
> successfully, and I could apparently install snap packages, but I couldn't
> execute them. Long story short, I eventually made my way to bugs.debian.org
> and found that most of the issues I'd seen with snapd, had bugs filed
> against them.
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=snapd
> 
> However, as far as I can tell, most of these bugs have been filed two to
> three years ago, and no developer has responded to them. Meanwhile, the
> package has been updated a few times since then.

What release are you running (stable, testing, unstable, etc.)? The 
package in stable will only receive security updates.
 
> snapd is a Canonical project, and from what I've heard from an acquaintance
> who works with Canonical, they use snapd internally quite a lot. So it
> surprises me that these bugs have gotten no attention. Do the messages about
> bug reports just not get through? Is it just a Debian problem?

Please provide some example for the bugs you're interested in.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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What's going on with snapd? Brian Vaughan <bgvaughan@gmail.com> - 2020-10-26 23:30 +0100
  Re: What's going on with snapd? didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 10:00 +0100
  Re: What's going on with snapd? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 15:00 +0100
    Re: What's going on with snapd? Brian Vaughan <bgvaughan@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 20:10 +0100
      Re: What's going on with snapd? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 14:20 +0100

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