FYI, Just noticed this today:
Snap
Last edited by Michael Terry 2 months ago
The snap release of Déjà Dup is deprecated and might not receive further updates.
What to do
Please switch to the flatpak release to continue to receive bug fixes and further features.
Or switch to the version of Déjà Dup packaged by your distro.
And you may also want to uninstall the snap release so that you don’t have two versions installed at the same time:
snap remove deja-dup
Why is it deprecated?
The short answer is a lack of developer time.
Some pieces of the long answer:
- The Déjà Dup snap needs
classicmode because there is no GVfs interface yet - Classic snaps cannot use the GNOME extensions
- Which means the Déjà Dup snap must bundle the entire modern GNOME stack itself
- In addition, the snap is still using the
core20base, which increases the difficulty of maintaining a modern stack on top of it. And upgrading a classic snap’s base is itself a non-trivial task.
This all makes building the snap difficult and time consuming. There are sometimes also subtle bugs from doing an incomplete job of managing the GNOME stack myself.
This is not snap’s or snapcraft’s fault. It’s just a matter of not having enough volunteer time to maintain the snap packaging well enough.
If a GVfs interface gets added and we could thus move to a confined snap with extensions, and/or someone capable volunteered to maintain the snap packaging, I’d consider releasing snaps again.
But for now, it’s being sunset.