1447064 - Firefox Developer Edition Builds should create a snap

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering Graveyard :: Release Automation: Snap, defect)

Description

[jegbert.eggy]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180222170353

Steps to reproduce:

Found the firefox snap at https://snapcraft.io/firefox

(Not sure if this bug is in the right place)


Actual results:

I was unable to find a snap for firefox developer edition


Expected results:

The build process of the Developer Edition should be updated to publish a snap

Comment 1

[Kim Moir [:kmoir] ET]

Johan, iirc you were working in this area.  Are there ubuntu snaps for dev edition or plans for this?

Comment 2

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Hi! I'm sorry, we don't ship dev edition at the moment. Our next plans is to get Firefox ESR uploaded. I'm not too sure if we planned Dev Edition. Mike, what do you think?

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

How difficult would this be?

Comment 4

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

In my opinion, this will be more difficult than making Nightly and ESR. The differences I currently see:
* we need to fetch devedition langpacks, instead of the regular firefox ones (because of different branding)
* incidentally, we should also change the snapcraft manifest and the *.desktop file to match the right localization.
* there are more addons bundled in devedition, IIRC. We should check the repackage process doesn't throw them away.
* we didn't want the devedition profile to use the default one, on regular Linux. I don't know how this will interact in the snap container.

Comment 5

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

I think this is a case where we would accept patches, but it's not a priority at the moment.

Comment 7

[Anders]

I had a look at your snap creation process and it would be next to impossible for an outsider to contribute here for a developer snap.

I sincerely request that you revisit this discussion ;). It would make the world of ubuntu as a webdeveloper a better place!

/ Anders

Comment 8

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau]]

We're no longer shipping firefox snaps, so I'll call this wontfix.

Comment 9

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart]

Has that decision been publicly stated? Google provides no relevant information to me.

Comment 10

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Sorry, by "not shipping" we mean that Canonical is doing it.

Snaps are still available.