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have you actually looked at a snap's status?

root@cave:~# lsb_release -d
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
root@cave:~# uname -r
6.12.88+deb13-amd64
root@cave:~# snap debug sandbox-features|grep confinement
confinement-options:  classic devmode
root@cave:~# snap debug confinement
partial
root@cave:~# aa-enabled
Yes
root@cave:~# snap info --verbose hello-world
name:    hello-world
summary: The 'hello-world' of snaps
health:
  status:  unknown
  message: health has not been set
publisher: Canonical✓
contact:   snaps@canonical.com
links:
  contact:
    - mailto:snaps@canonical.com
license: unset
description: |
  This is a simple hello world example.
commands:
  - hello-world.env
  - hello-world.evil
  - hello-world
  - hello-world.sh
notes:               
  private:           false
  confinement:       strict
  devmode:           false
  jailmode:          false
  trymode:           false
  enabled:           true
  broken:            false
  ignore-validation: false
snap-id:      buPKUD3TKqCOgLEjjHx5kSiCpIs5cMuQ
tracking:     latest/stable
refresh-date: today at 07:43 CDT
installed:    6.4 (29) 20.5kB -
root@cave:~# snap run hello-world.evil
Hello Evil World!
This example demonstrates the app confinement
You should see a permission denied error next
/snap/hello-world/29/bin/evil: 9: /snap/hello-world/29/bin/evil: cannot create /var/tmp/myevil.txt: Permission denied
root@cave:~# 

What is this, troll day? Nobody cares about snap bc none of us use it. It's a colossal fuckup and nobody cares about it

Who TF cares? If you want containerized apps, run Flatpak. There is no application packaged for Snap that I've not seen packaged for Flatpak, too. And Flatpak is better in basically every way.

Thank the gods. Nobody wants that proprietary walled garden in Debian.

It's just a tool for Ubuntu to control, and maybe even sell itself one day to Goog's or MS or similar.

Don't want it in Debian.

I mean I get the concern but I'd be surprised if even 1% of Debian users had any interest in running snaps

If I had to guess, this isn't a bigger issue because Snap is mostly pushed by Canonical. And in a bit of a weird way (proprietary backend, exclusive apps) so... reception in the rest of the Linux community is ...mixed. To put it charitably. It's probably not that relevant for most people outside of Ubuntu ecosystem. And probably also not a priority for Canonical or the proprietary software vendors.

Hardly anyone but Ubuntu users use snap, because snap was created by Ubuntu, and their efforts to get other distros to adopt it never gained traction. Debian users are especially uninterested in using snap, and some people on Debian are ex-Ubuntu users who switched because they didn’t like snap.

It’s not a big deal because the answer to the problem is “don’t run snaps”.

Because snap is an absolute abomination and no one in their right mind is loosing time maintaining it. If canonical whants to push their crap on debian too, they will need to put in the time to make it work. I really hope they are not making debian developers loose their precious time on this cancer.

Snaps is something you drink.
AFAIK only users who have it shoved down their throat by Ubuntu use snap packages.

Because snaps is a Ubuntu thing, and not particularly widely used on Debian.

#rank name inst vote old recent no-files

2 util-linux 4000213 2110588 1172784 345252 371589

2258 snapd 19307 17314 846 1033 114

I actually don't understand what use case snapd on Debian covers better than docker on Debian or snapd on ubuntu

Companies are more likely to use Ubuntu instead of plain Debian or another Debian-based distro on their workstations. No one in this chain aims to bring snap packages to other distros and ensure that they work properly there.

file a debian bug report against snapd.