Hi team, I’m the maintainer of the curl snap currently. Here is the context . Since curl is commonly used as a download tool for installation scripts of various open source software. Recently, many users have reported to me that strict snap cannot access hidden files in the HOME directory, which …

I also think that curl is probably not a good fir for classic, considering that accessing arbitrary files is explicitly listed as unsupported reason. Also, classic confinement requires of publisher vetting, so it can only be requested by members of the upstream project. That said, looking a the rep…

Is curl in the category that allows to apply classic confinement?

store-requests classic-confinement

ogra April 30, 2025, 9:18am 4

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Snaps that are granted classic must fit into the “supported” category, this is a hard requirement (I doubt curl fits into any of that list but you can indeed try to convince the reviewers otherwise)…