snapcraft 2.27 has been released

Sat Feb 18 20:25:02 UTC 2017

On 18/02/17 17:58, Sergio Schvezov wrote:
>> The bad news is that running the snapped applications seems to
>> run into trouble.
>>   I'm presuming this is a snapcraft issue rather than snapd since
>> already-installed classic snaps built with snapcraft 2.26 seem fine.
>
> This is due to the fact that we are not setting up any environment variables from snapcraft for classic snaps to not override anything on the environment you'd want to run.

Ah, thanks for the clarification (and your detailed explanation given below).

A further effect of this seems to be that libraries included in the snap are not 
auto-detected (whether built as part of the snap, or included as 
stage-packages).  Can you offer some suggestions for how to deal with this?

> As I write this I think there is a clever trick we can try on snapcraft. Mind logging a bug for this please? I'll try and solve it for the next release which is next week.

Sure: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+bug/1665927

Thanks & best wishes,

     -- Joe