[snap2deb] Not very robust wrt. network errors

[Iain Lane]

Version: 1:20.04.2

I tried the following:

  - Have gnome-software eligible for a snap2deb transition (apt-mark auto gnome-software && snap remove snap-store)
  - Run update-manager, get prompted to do the transition
  - Go on with it, but while snap-store is downloading, kill the network (just turned it off using network-manager)

It took a while - perhaps how long it took for snapd to timeout - but I got the normal 'updates are complete' message at the end. No indication of any errors taking place, but I actually had a system with no gnome-software and no snap-store either!

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

Permission request on ubuntu-translators:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2020-April/007664.html

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I don't think the translators are really in a position to grant permission. I said the same thing (with more words) in a reply on the list.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

Just go ahead, we’re days away from release and the confinement means we do tend to have time for translating :P

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:20.04.7

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update-manager (1:20.04.7) focal; urgency=medium

  [ Marcus Tomlinson ]
  * Show progress of snap updates (LP: #1871099).
  * Display an error message when snap updates fail (LP: #1871100).

  [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
  * Adjust dates in hwe-support-status for focal.

 -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Apr 2020 14:12:00 +0200