Comment 2 for bug 1907108

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Alex Haydock (alexhaydock) wrote :

This seems to still be an issue and the workaround (closing the channel and re-populating) is very cumbersome.

I have multiple Snaps where i386 is now deprecated by the move to core20 and where I would prefer to delete the entire architecture from the Store if possible.

To add another use-case for a "delete architecture" feature - for a lot of my Snaps, I built on all architectures while first learning Snapcraft because why not? Over time, I've experienced build failures as apps and dependencies have updated, as expected, but I haven't got the time nor hardware to devote to debugging the ones on the more obscure architectures. Given the nature of the apps in question, I don't think I'll be disappointing anyone by deprecating these architectures for my Snaps. I doubt anyone is installing Raincat on an IBM Mainframe. (Though if anyone is then please do speak up because I'd love to meet you!)

There's a good chance that nobody will ever try to install my Snap packages on the deprecated architectures anyway, but if they did, what they would end up with is a (probably very) outdated package that's not guaranteed to work, and which I can't provide support for if the user asks.

A way of resolving this would be great!