Please allow snap recipes to pin a source archive
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Canonical System Image |
Incomplete
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High
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Łukasz Zemczak | ||
Launchpad itself |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In the recipe used for unity8 snaps [1], we specify the stable-
Some packages from the overlay get overridden by xenial-updates [2]. This causes subtle bugs and subtle differences based on whether a developer builds locally with a pin vs the launchpad build without a pin.
[1] https:/
[2] An example at the time of this writing is libgstreamer-
[3] Actually, we get overridden by 1.8.3 in xenial-proposed. Which we separately don't want enabled for snap builds. (bug 1646145)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image: | |
milestone: | none → p1 |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image: | |
assignee: | nobody → Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Confirmed |
possibly unrelated, but IMHO if packages from xenial-updates are causing bugs not present in xenial (release), then those packages are at fault and shouldn't probably be there (they are regressing).