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

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 09:18:41PM +0100, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 8:57 PM Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> 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>.
> 
> A good first step, not going as far as enabling snaps to expose custom
> hooks, would be for apport to attach standard additional information
> when reporting a bug for a snap (in the add_snap_info function?):
> 
>   - snap changes --abs-time $SNAPNAME
>   - snap connections $SNAPNAME
>   - snap info --abs-time $SNAPNAME
>   - for PROVIDER in $(grep default-provider
> /snap/$SNAPNAME/current/meta/snap.yaml | uniq | cut -d: -f2); do snap
> info --abs-time $PROVIDER; done
>   - snap info --abs-time $(grep base:
> /snap/$SNAPNAME/current/meta/snap.yaml | cut -d: -f2)

I've gone ahead and created http://launchpad.net/bugs/1960964 to track
this, please update the bug if I missed anything. I'll try and get this
done before the release of Jammy.

Cheers,
--
Brian Murray