snapd not wiring alias for 'dotnet' that is in snap assertion

[Chris Patterson]

$ sudo snap install dotnet-sdk --classic
dotnet-sdk 3.1.402 from Microsoft .NET Core (dotnetcore✓) installed

$ dotnet
Command 'dotnet' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo snap install dotnet-sdk

$ stat /snap/bin/dotnet
stat: cannot stat '/snap/bin/dotnet': No such file or directory

$ snap aliases | grep dotnet
<empty>

$ curl -s "https://api.snapcraft.io/api/v1/snaps/assertions/snap-declaration/16/uHc4y9lWxyqYfxsqcr4xILzAai4L1BHs?max-format=4" -H "Accept: application/x.ubuntu.assertion"
type: snap-declaration
authority-id: canonical
revision: 2
series: 16
snap-id: uHc4y9lWxyqYfxsqcr4xILzAai4L1BHs
aliases:
  -
    name: dotnet
    target: dotnet-sdk
auto-aliases:
  - dotnet
publisher-id: NkziOx5Ju2cGzp2Ei3picHMIev25uDU6
snap-name: dotnet-sdk
timestamp: 2018-01-31T19:47:36.754886Z
sign-key-sha3-384: BWDEoaqyr25nF5SNCvEv2v7QnM9QsfCc0PBMYD_i2NGSQ32EF2d4D0hqUel3m8ul

$ snap known snap-declaration snap-name=dotnet-sdk
type: snap-declaration
authority-id: canonical
revision: 2
series: 16
snap-id: uHc4y9lWxyqYfxsqcr4xILzAai4L1BHs
aliases:
  -
    name: dotnet
    target: dotnet-sdk
auto-aliases:
  - dotnet
publisher-id: NkziOx5Ju2cGzp2Ei3picHMIev25uDU6
snap-name: dotnet-sdk
timestamp: 2018-01-31T19:47:36.754886Z
sign-key-sha3-384: BWDEoaqyr25nF5SNCvEv2v7QnM9QsfCc0PBMYD_i2NGSQ32EF2d4D0hqUel3m8ul

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[Maciej Borzecki (maciek-borzecki)]

I think that the snap declaration is wrong at this point. There is no app named dotnet-sdk in the current revision (98) of the dotnet-sdk snap. From what I can tell looking at the code it should be:

alises:
    - name: dotnet
      target: dotnet

[Chris Patterson (cjp256)]

Ah, that would make sense! Thank you!

I'm going to close this as it does not look like a snapd bug. :-)

[Maciej Borzecki (maciek-borzecki)]

@pedronis has updated the snap declaration which contains this now:

type: snap-declaration
authority-id: canonical
revision: 3
series: 16
snap-id: uHc4y9lWxyqYfxsqcr4xILzAai4L1BHs
aliases:
  -
    name: dotnet
    target: dotnet
auto-aliases:
  - dotnet
publisher-id: NkziOx5Ju2cGzp2Ei3picHMIev25uDU6

I can confirm that a dotnet alias was created during installation.