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

[Paul Harrison]

snap info firefox reports this (currently it isn't installed and
shouldn't be):

name:      firefox
summary:   Mozilla Firefox web browser
publisher: Mozilla✓
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/firefox
contact:   https://support.mozilla.org/kb/file-bug-report-or-feature-request-mozilla
license:   MPL-2.0
description: |
  Firefox is a powerful, extensible web browser with support for modern web application
  technologies.
snap-id: 3wdHCAVyZEmYsCMFDE9qt92UV8rC8Wdk
channels:
  latest/stable:    113.0.2-1     2023-05-23 (2710) 254MB -
  latest/candidate: 113.0.2-1     2023-05-22 (2710) 254MB -
  latest/beta:      114.0b7-1     2023-05-22 (2704) 255MB -
  latest/edge:      115.0a1       2023-05-23 (2711) 261MB -
  esr/stable:       102.11.0esr-2 2023-05-09 (2642) 186MB -
  esr/candidate:    102.11.0esr-2 2023-05-04 (2642) 186MB -
  esr/beta:         ↑
  esr/edge:         ↑

For the journalctl stuff we're talking about very large files even if I
grep them for 'firefox'. I'm not sure how helpful they would be, but see
also herrsaalfeld's comments.

At this stage (for the last six months at least) I've actually disabled
most of the automatic update tools in one way or another, just running
apt-get update/apt-get upgrade manually to avoid these issues.

Also see my posts #2 and #5 above. These show the state of apt before
and after each unwanted replacement. Something is forcing the Canonical
version, it's not a version number check, it's not normal apt behavior.

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