Hi Lars, On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:27:43PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 03:44:54PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > snapd is available in Debian unstable for roughly the past two weeks.
> Disclaimer: I've never used snap packages, and I haven't even read > their documentation. I hope I'll convince you to give them a try ;) > Given that snapd therefore seems to be, in practice, only usable by > Canonical's server, shouldn't the package be in contrib instead of > main? At least until such time as there is a server side of this that > can realistically be used with snapd (without changing its source) and > that is free software. The point has been made that there are lots of other clients in Debian main that only talk to a single, proprietary server implementation; so if snapd did only talk to the Canonical store, I believe its placement in main would still be consistent with archive policy / past Technical Committee decisions. But as it turns out, the Canonical store is *not* the only game in town. Since snapd talks a straightforward REST API, there is already a separate Free implementation: https://github.com/noise/snapstore/ And there's talk of including this in the snapcore upstream project as a reference implementation: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/06/howto-host-your-own-snap-store.html > Furhter, the snapd package description is as follows: > Description: Scripts for snapd that should only run on ubuntu core systems. > This package contains systemd services that need to run on ubuntu core > systems. > . > This package should not be installed on a Desktop system. > This seems to not be relevant for a package that's meant to install > snap pacxkages on a Debian system. I think it should be replaced by > something that is more useful to a Debian user/sysadmin. Agreed, and bug #827906 is open about this, to be fixed soon! Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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