[Bug 1999308] Re: Snap keeps uninstalling apt Firefox, and reinstalling snap Firefox

[Sebastien Bacher]

> If this is intended behaviour, please confirm that the transitional
Firefox DEB is *always* expected to take priority and users will never
be allowed to permanently override it.

No, that's not the intended behaviour. There is no nothing special about
the firefox deb nor special handling in apt for it.

Trying a random guess perhaps the pinning as suggested in this bug is
not robust? It favors the ppa version over the archive one but if the
ppa get disabled for some reason, even temporarily (launchpad having
issues which leads to apt failing to download the corresponding index
for example), then apt would install back the archive version since then
it would be the only candidate and considered as newer than the
installed version...

Using `apt-mark hold firefox` would avoid having the package updated
even in those cases but then you would need to manually install updates
from the ppa...

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