Numeric HTTP status codes vs http.Status* constants

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We have agreed after discussion to prefer using directly numeric values (20x, 40x, 50x etc) in snapd code, instead of using the http.Status* constants, because the numeric values are quite more well-know anyway.

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Excellent!

I’d appreciate a comment close to the less known ones, though.

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I’ll make a PR in the next days, and we can discuss there whether some places warrant that already.

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here it is:

https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/3486

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this is merged now, and there’s also a run-check --static check to make sure this style is kept going forward