Any way to get "snapcraft snap" to not use a minimized cloud image as base?

[jamesh]

I’m not sure how Snapcraft’s Multipass images are generated. It’s not the first time differences have been reported between them and the LXD/Launchpad images, for example:

Call for testing: Github action for Snapcraft

Perhaps there is some difference between the package set in the Multipass and LXD images Snapcraft runs with? Looking at the error message, something is running a copy of the lsb_release tool in the part’s install dir, which in turn is looking for data files in /usr/share/distro-info. These data files appear to be from the distro-info-data package, and nothing tries to install it. @cjp256: is this something the catkin-tools plugin should automatically pull in as build-packages?

It’s probably a question for @sergiusens or @cjp256.