Removing desktop-ubuntu-app-platform broke any app relying on the webapp-helper

[fcole90]

Removing desktop-ubuntu-app-platform broke any app relying on the webapp-helper.

There should be an option for developers to continue using the webapp-helper even without the whole platform or to have a different webapp-helper.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: snapcraft 2.31+17.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-10.15-generic 4.11.8
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.5-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Jul 19 11:21:44 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-21 (850 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150321)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: snapcraft
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-07-18 (0 days ago)

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

This is outside of the scope of snapcraft as it was provided as a part from another group within Canonical, the Ubuntu SDK as once known is also not a thing anymore. You are free to provide a part which would support your use case and keep maintenance on it or you can explore other means of providing webapps like electron.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

To echo Sergios comment, this is outside of the scope of snapd too. But with the appropriate snapcraft part this should work fine :)