Gather additional info when creating a bug about a snap

[Brian Murray]

On the ubuntu-devel mailing list[1] it was suggested that apport should collect the following additional information when reporting a bug about a snap:

  - snap changes --abs-time $SNAPNAME
  - snap connections $SNAPNAME
  - snap info --abs-time $SNAPNAME
  - for PROVIDER in $(grep default-provider /snap/$SNAPNAME/current/meta/snap.yaml | uniq | cut -d: -f2); do snap info --abs-time $PROVIDER; done
  - snap info --abs-time $(grep base: /snap/$SNAPNAME/current/meta/snap.yaml | cut -d: -f2)

This should be fairly straightforward we just need to decide on names for the keys in the report.

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2022-February/041836.html

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

For reference, the chromium-browser package in focal and upwards is a simple wrapper that installs the chromium snap, and it has a custom apport hook that attaches some of this information. The names of the keys there are:

 - Snap.Changes
 - Snap.Connections
 - Snap.Info.chromium
 - Snap.Info.core
 - Snap.Info.core18 (this needs to be updated because it is currently hardcoded in the hook, but the snap has since been rebased on core20)
 - Snap.Info.gtk-common-themes

See bug #1958810 for an example.

There isn't any tooling that expects these specific names though, so as far as I'm concerned they can be changed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.11-0ubuntu78

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apport (2.20.11-0ubuntu78) jammy; urgency=medium

  [ Olivier Gayot ]
  * Expect whoopsie to be started using path-based activation.
  * Pass timeout option to apport-autoreport so that whoopsie has time to
    upload all reports.
  * Use timer-based activation for apport-autoreport in addition to path-based
    activation (on modification of /var/crash).
  * Some code cleanup in data/whoopsie-upload-all.
  * Use unbuffered logging in data/whoopsie-upload-all.
  * Touch the /var/crash directory in data/whoopsie-upload-all so that
    whoopsie activates when needed.
  * Stop removing .crash files after they are successfully uploaded by
    whoopsie.

  [ Brian Murray ]
  * When collecting information about a snap gather some additional details,
    thanks to Olivier Tilloy for the idea. (LP: #1960964)
  * Update the recommended version of whoopsie for apport-noui.

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Feb 2022 17:13:48 -0800