In confirm that the DEP-17 concerns are addressed in 2.76+ubuntu26.10.1 by running lintian against the 2.76 and 2.74 and comparing. The 2.76 output no longer contains all the "aliased-location" errors. The other lintian reports I believe are "acceptable" for snapd, though I'd have to check any exceptions in Ubuntu and Debian. If you see anything you'd like to clean up left, open another bug, but this one is verified for 2.76
2.76 output: E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.apparmor.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.autoimport.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.core-fixup.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.failure.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.gpio-chardev-setup.target] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.mounts-pre.target] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.mounts.target] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.recovery-chooser-trigger.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.seeded.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.snap-repair.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.snap-repair.timer] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.socket] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.system-shutdown.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/udev/] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/udev/snappy-app-dev] E: snapd: non-standard-dir-in-var [var/snap/] E: snapd: non-standard-toplevel-dir [snap/] E: snapd: statically-linked-binary [usr/lib/snapd/snap-exec] E: snapd: statically-linked-binary [usr/lib/snapd/snap-gdbserver-shim] E: snapd: statically-linked-binary [usr/lib/snapd/snap-update-ns] E: snapd: statically-linked-binary [usr/lib/snapd/snapctl] W: snapd: debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 2026-04-14 was a Tuesday [usr/share/doc/snapd/changelog.gz:1] W: snapd: desktop-command-not-in-package bin/false [usr/share/applications/io.snapcraft.SessionAgent.desktop] W: snapd: hardening-no-pie [usr/lib/snapd/snap-seccomp] W: snapd: maintainer-script-calls-systemctl [postrm:14] W: snapd: maintainer-script-calls-systemctl [postrm:27] W: snapd: maintainer-script-calls-systemctl [prerm:14] W: snapd: maintainer-script-calls-systemctl [prerm:29] W: snapd: maintscript-calls-ldconfig [postinst] W: snapd: no-manual-page [usr/bin/snapctl] W: snapd: no-manual-page [usr/bin/snapfuse] W: snapd: systemd-service-file-refers-to-unusual-wantedby-target cloud-final.service [lib/systemd/system/snapd.seeded.service] W: snapd: systemd-service-file-refers-to-unusual-wantedby-target final.target [lib/systemd/system/snapd.system-shutdown.service] W: snapd: wrong-manual-section 8 != 5 [usr/share/man/man8/snap-discard-ns.8.gz:31] W: snapd: wrong-manual-section 8 != 7 [usr/share/man/man8/snapd-env-generator.8.gz:31] 2.74 output E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.apparmor.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.autoimport.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.core-fixup.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.failure.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.gpio-chardev-setup.target] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.mounts-pre.target] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.mounts.target] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.recovery-chooser-trigger.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.seeded.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.snap-repair.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.snap-repair.timer] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.socket] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/systemd/system/snapd.system-shutdown.service] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/udev/] E: snapd: aliased-location [lib/udev/snappy-app-dev] E: snapd: non-standard-dir-in-var [var/snap/] E: snapd: non-standard-toplevel-dir [snap/] E: snapd: statically-linked-binary [usr/lib/snapd/snap-exec] E: snapd: statically-linked-binary [usr/lib/snapd/snap-gdbserver-shim] E: snapd: statically-linked-binary [usr/lib/snapd/snap-update-ns] E: snapd: statically-linked-binary [usr/lib/snapd/snapctl] W: snapd: debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 2026-04-14 was a Tuesday [usr/share/doc/snapd/changelog.gz:1] W: snapd: desktop-command-not-in-package bin/false [usr/share/applications/io.snapcraft.SessionAgent.desktop] W: snapd: hardening-no-pie [usr/lib/snapd/snap-seccomp] W: snapd: maintainer-script-calls-systemctl [postrm:14] W: snapd: maintainer-script-calls-systemctl [postrm:27] W: snapd: maintainer-script-calls-systemctl [prerm:14] W: snapd: maintainer-script-calls-systemctl [prerm:29] W: snapd: maintscript-calls-ldconfig [postinst] W: snapd: no-manual-page [usr/bin/snapctl] W: snapd: no-manual-page [usr/bin/snapfuse] W: snapd: systemd-service-file-refers-to-unusual-wantedby-target cloud-final.service [lib/systemd/system/snapd.seeded.service] W: snapd: systemd-service-file-refers-to-unusual-wantedby-target final.target [lib/systemd/system/snapd.system-shutdown.service] W: snapd: wrong-manual-section 8 != 5 [usr/share/man/man8/snap-discard-ns.8.gz:31] W: snapd: wrong-manual-section 8 != 7 [usr/share/man/man8/snapd-env-generator.8.gz:31] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2139213 Title: [usrmerge] evaluate snapd for DEP17 compliance To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/2139213/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
