cannot use snapcraft to build snapd on focal

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

cannot use snapcraft to build snapd on focal

$ snap install snapcraft
$ git clone https://github.com/snapcore/snapd
$ cd snapd
$ snapcraft
....
fails

Depends on https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+bug/1857019 being fixed, then snapd getting fixed, then drink champagne

[Ian Johnson (anonymouse67)]

Note that the reason this doesn't work is partially due to https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+bug/1857019, which prevents the snapd snap snapcraft.yaml from being updated to "modern snapcraft". If that bug was fixed we could update the snapd snapcraft.yaml to modern and it would "just work".

[Claudio Matsuoka (cmatsuoka)]

Assigned to Ian as a reminder to unblock PR #7904 once the prerequisites are cleared.

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

Added snapstore as the root cause for the workarounds needed in Snapcraft are because the Snap Store does not accept "type: snapd".

[Ian Johnson (anonymouse67)]

The store bug here is specifically about the snapd snap currently having `type: app` and not properly supporting transitioning the type to `type: snapd`.

Samuele will discuss this with the store team about how to move forward on that front.

[Ian Johnson (anonymouse67)]

This is fixed on snapd master and will be "released" with snapd 2.44.