Re: [GTALUG] Removing snapd from Ubuntu

In a life long ago, we'd have made /usr/bin/python a shell script, containing echo "please run /usr/bin/python3" --dave On 5/11/22 18:04, Giles Orr via talk wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2022 at 14:54, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 09:30:41AM

Re: [GTALUG] Removing snapd from Ubuntu

On Wed, 11 May 2022 at 14:54, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 09:30:41AM -0400, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > > I just did the 22.04 upgrade thing, and it seems that Firefox will be held > > at v 99 if you don't have snapd. So beware of old/held packages as you >

Re: [GTALUG] Removing snapd from Ubuntu

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 09:30:41AM -0400, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > I just did the 22.04 upgrade thing, and it seems that Firefox will be held > at v 99 if you don't have snapd. So beware of old/held packages as you > update. > > Another delightful thing I found is that Ubuntu took its

Re: [GTALUG] Removing snapd from Ubuntu

On 5/11/22 11:39, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Another downside of snaps: any bugs, including security bugs, in shared libraries requires the distro to update the library AND the snap publisher to rebuild the snap. What are the chances of that working out well? Almost certainly a

Re: [GTALUG] Removing snapd from Ubuntu

| From: Stewart Russell via talk | I just did the 22.04 upgrade thing, and it seems that Firefox will be held | at v 99 if you don't have snapd. So beware of old/held packages as you | update. Wow. But it makes some kind of sense. The point of snap is to allow the packager to ignore changes

Re: [GTALUG] Removing snapd from Ubuntu

I just did the 22.04 upgrade thing, and it seems that Firefox will be held at v 99 if you don't have snapd. So beware of old/held packages as you update. Another delightful thing I found is that Ubuntu took its very own special path in the "Sensible things to do in the Python 2 / Python 3"