1493053 - snap-push task on beta failing due to missing xdelta3 package

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1488396

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

Description

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Ran into this today with 63.0b8:
https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer.html#?job_id=200624674&repo=mozilla-beta

snapcraft.internal.errors.ToolMissingError: A tool snapcraft depends on could not be found: 'xdelta3'.
Ensure the tool is installed and available, and try again.

Comment 1

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Okay, the upgrade I did in bug 1488396 now makes xdelta mandatory. I'm on it.

Comment 2

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

(In reply to Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo] from comment #1)
> Okay, the upgrade I did in bug 1488396 now makes xdelta mandatory. I'm on it.

To clarify, I'm surprised by this change. It's not part of the release notes of neither:
 * 2.43.1 https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/releases/tag/2.43.1
 * nor 2.43 https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/releases/tag/2.43

Comment 3

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Good news first: I got 63.0b8 published and released: https://tools.taskcluster.net/groups/CTU6CA-PTGyDBu4IExIgoA/tasks/USJ2lRdtQ16waOO0kzT-zw/runs/2/logs/public%2Flogs%2Flive_backing.log. This error is no more. 

Bad news: xdelta3 doesn't work, but it falls back to the old method.

Conclusion: let's track the xdelta3 work in bug 1453026 and dupe this bug against what fixed it: bug 1488396.