Request for a new package (Siril)

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I’m contacting you about an application missing from the Snap catalog. I hope this is the right place for this type of request.

I am one of the main developer of the Siril software. I had the VERY pleasant surprise to see that our software was installed in the Ubuntu 20th anniversary demo video! It was a great joy to see that.

However, I realized that there was no Siril Snap, even though it exists in flatpak, AppImage. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time or resources to make and maintain it (perhaps we’ll have to).

Maybe it would be possible for you to add it?

My best regards

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No volunteers to create a snap package? The reason I ask is that version 1.4 is coming soon. It would have been nice to find it in the catalog. However, I understand. Have a nice day.

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Why not just do it yourselves after all? That would also lift the status of the snap - Official!

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Because I maintain the Flatpak package, the debian package, and the creation of AppImage. I’m developing Siril, the documentation, the website, translating it all into French via a weblate that I administer, and so on. So… I’d prefer the work to be done by specialists who could do it quickly, whereas it would take up time I no longer have, having a life on the side :-).

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Drop the AppImage? - They’re useless for regular users (need to be chmodded to run) and they don’t even integrate. Nevermind that on Ubuntu AppImage requires even additional tinkering …

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And yet that’s what we’ve been asked to do the most so far.

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Its fans are very vocal about AppImages, but its technically most inferior of the modern packaging bunch. Can’t package kernels or system services with them either.

If a new user (and many use Ubuntu) tries to run AppImage there is even more to do than making the file executable (and how would a starter know even that automatically).

Why Ubuntu doesn’t have libfuse2 installed by default is ‘cos it’s an AppImage’ developers choice to not use an updated fuse or make it work on an “in house” library so wouldn’t depend on this specific library.

Snaps and Flatpaks are the way to go IMO.

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For Ubuntu we also have PPA. I’m the maintainer of this repository.

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All PPA maintainers are PPA maintainers. No matter the project, or how long this maintaining will even last. Time has gone past PPA’s. Imma just leave this here from Alan Pope already couple of years back (OMGUbuntu site), on which i agree.

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If you’re not up to creating your own snap, then just let it be i suppose. Please don’t take offence from any of this, that is not the intention at all. This is purely a technical matter :+1:

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I take any offense of what you say. Don’t worry. I have to admit, I’m an old school guy and I like deb-style package :).

I posted here in the hope of finding a volunteer to write the yaml, as some have done for darktable or gimp. If I can’t find anyone, that’s okay.