Shows old snap edge version of thunderbird

[Doug McMahon]

Test case:
Open ubuntu-software, search thunderbird
Version returned is an old edge version of thunderbird not meant to be used.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: ubuntu-software 3.30.6-2ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-17.18-generic 5.0.8
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Jul 6 14:57:47 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-07-03 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Alpha amd64 (20190703)
InstalledPlugins:
 gnome-software-plugin-flatpak N/A
 gnome-software-plugin-snap 3.30.6-2ubuntu8
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: gnome-software
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Please not that there's currently no snap for thunderbird in any other channel, only edge. So I suppose the fact that gnome-software shows the version in edge is normal.

    $ snap info thunderbird
    name: thunderbird
    […]
    snap-id: k1Ml1O9GzSO2QftV0ZlWSbUfQ78nN460
    channels:
      stable: –
      candidate: –
      beta: –
      edge: 60.6.1 2019-07-05 (34) 99MB -

What's not so normal though, is that the snap is not up-to-date with the latest upstream release (60.7.2).

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Re-opening per https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/future-maintaining-thunderbird/10845/5

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The snap has been updated to 60.8 now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Why do you think gnome-software is at fault there? What would you expect it to do diferently?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Per the thread linked to in comment #5, ogra wrote: « GnomeSoftware should not show snap packages that have never been released to stable »

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

That's not true, we *should* be showing them. It was a conscious decision to make snapd and G-S show them.

[Ben (soupcan)]

As I wrote on the snapcraft forums, that's a problem then as long as the snap continues to be out of date/unstable, as the snap replaces the deb version for users that don't have Thunderbird installed.

I don't mind if non-stable snaps appear in the store, but they should not be default if a deb version is also available.