Ubuntu bug reporting for snaps (was: Should we remove chromium-browser from the archive?)

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 08:57:16PM +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Hey Olivier, thanks for raising the topic!
> 
> Le 08/02/2022 à 19:33, Olivier Tilloy a écrit :
> >   - a custom apport hook that collects additional information about the
> > snap and its dependencies
> 
> I'm going to sidetrack slightly the discussion in a new topic to address
> that point. I think that's a problem we need to resolve for snaps. We added
> some hooks to apport directly for subiquity or ubuntu-desktop-installer but
> it would be better if ubuntu-bug was able to find hooks provided by the
> snaps (either by having snapd exporting them to a system location or by
> teaching ubuntu-bug to look into /snap/<...>/current/<somedir>.

The hooks for subiquity and ubuntu-desktop-installer are shipped with
apport, and should continue to be shipped with apport, because those
snaps are only installed in the live environment.

> Brian, any chance we could get that on the foundation backlog?

I've added the general idea of apport looking for snap hooks to the
Foundations team backlog.

Thanks!
--
Brian Murray