Hey all,
We’ve got a Snap package for Graphs, and we recently released version 1.8 on Flathub. Unfortunately, we’ve got some troubles getting the Snap package to work so the latest update is delayed on this platform.
The main issue is simply that we are using the latest GNOME technologies, which includes Libadwaita 1.5 as a hard requirement. This is not available in the regular core22 package with the gnome42 sdk that exists out there. The build gives me this error:
:: ../src/meson.build:13:2: ERROR: Dependency lookup for libadwaita-1 with method 'pkgconfig' failed: Invalid version, need 'libadwaita-1' ['>= 1.5'] found '1.4.0'.
But just updating to core24 doesn’t work, and I haven’t been able to get gnome46-sdk to be included. So I was just wondering if it’s possible yet to use the latest version of GNOME with Snapcraft, and how that works?
Here is the manifest as used in the current stable Snap release, which does not work with GNOME46 (or Libadwaita 1.5 to be specific) clearly.
name: graphs
base: core22
adopt-info: graphs
grade: stable
confinement: strict
compression: lzo
license: GPL-3.0
architectures:
- build-on: amd64
- build-on: arm64
slots:
graphs:
interface: dbus
bus: session
name: se.sjoerd.Graphs
parts:
numpy:
source: https://github.com/numpy/numpy.git
source-tag: 'v1.25.2'
plugin: python
build-environment:
- PATH: ${CRAFT_PART_INSTALL}/bin:${PATH}
- PYTHONPATH: ""
python-packages:
- scipy==1.11.2
- python-dateutil==2.8.2
- pyparsing==3.0.9
- Pillow==10.0.0
- packaging==23.1
- contourpy==1.1.0
- kiwisolver==1.4.5
- fonttools==4.41.1
- cycler==0.11.0
- matplotlib==3.8.0
- numexpr==2.8.6
- mpmath==1.3.0
- sympy==1.12
prime:
- -usr/bin/activate
- -usr/bin/activate.csh
- -usr/bin/activate.fish
- -usr/bin/Activate.ps1
- -usr/bin/python
- -usr/bin/python3
- -usr/bin/python3.10
- -usr/bin/pip
- -usr/bin/pip3
- -usr/bin/pip3.10
- -pyvenv.cfg
- -share
- -include
- -lib
- -lib64
- -usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip*
- -usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools*
- -usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources*
organize:
bin: usr/bin
lib/python3.10/site-packages: usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
graphs:
after: [ numpy ]
plugin: meson
source: .
meson-parameters:
- --prefix=/snap/graphs/current/usr
- --buildtype=release
build-environment:
- PYTHONPATH: $CRAFT_STAGE/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages:$PYTHONPATH
- GI_TYPELIB_PATH: /snap/gnome-42-2204-sdk/current/usr/lib/$CRAFT_ARCH_TRIPLET/girepository-1.0:/snap/gnome-42-2204-sdk/current/usr/lib/girepository-1.0
build-snaps:
- blueprint-compiler/latest/stable
override-build: |
craftctl default
sed -e '1c#!/usr/bin/env python3' -i ${CRAFT_PART_INSTALL}/snap/graphs/current/usr/bin/graphs
mkdir -p $CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/meta/gui
cp -r $CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/snap/graphs/current/usr/share/icons $CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/meta/gui/
for i in `find $CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/meta/gui/icons -name "*.svg" -o -name "*.png"`; do
mv $i "`dirname $i`/snap.$CRAFT_PROJECT_NAME.`basename $i`"
done
organize:
snap/graphs/current/usr: usr
parse-info: [usr/share/appdata/se.sjoerd.Graphs.appdata.xml]
apps:
graphs:
command: usr/bin/graphs
desktop: usr/share/applications/se.sjoerd.Graphs.desktop
common-id: se.sjoerd.Graphs
environment:
PYTHONPATH: $SNAP/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages:$PYTHONPATH
GI_TYPELIB_PATH: $SNAP/usr/lib/$CRAFT_ARCH_TRIPLET/girepository-1.0:$GI_TYPELIB_PATH
extensions: [gnome]
Is this a thing that’s already possible? I’d like to keep shipping the Snap package as well, as we do have quite some users that we may not release with the official Flatpak. But sustained support for the Snap variant does require Snap to follow the GNOME technologies and have that properly documented.