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Ubuntu will manually review Snap Store after crypto wallet scams (arstechnica.com)
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[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ubuntu Snap Store looked messy years ago. Why let people upload half baked software and experiments, which get no updates, but add to search engine results ? https://snapcraft.io/search?q=test We’ve found 815 snaps

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

One of the downsides to hardcoding snap to only be able to use a single repo/store is probably added difficulty in creating testing infra for testing if uploads/CI/CD work.

lol, one of the first one's I click on: https://snapcraft.io/test-snapd-public (by Canonical)

A basic buildable snap that is expected to be published in public mode

Maybe if they didn't insist on holding a monopoly over the store, they would be able to have an internal version of the store for testing, rather than cluttering the public one.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah but then they can't pivot to charging for updates.

[–] leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 1 points 7 months ago

Oof. Never thought to test that. That's awful 😬