What's going on with snapd?
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.
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?
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