Request for ubuntu-XX.YY track creation

Hello!

So the policy you pointed to reads:

Snaps included in images will be installed referencing a per-Ubuntu-series branch following the name format ubuntu-$version (e.g.: ubuntu-16.04). This ensures forwards-compatibility by allowing publishing to this branch if the mainline of a snap becomes incompatible with a given Ubuntu release, without requiring up-front maintenance of multiple snap channels.

it explicitly mentions branches, but branches are by design ephemeral and non-discoverable. Your use case seems to imply tracks, however I prefer not to make assumptions, since creating the tracks also carries a commitment from the snap’s maintainers to keep the snaps up to date with, at the very least, security updates, per Process for aliases, auto-connections and tracks, https://docs.snapcraft.io/channels/551 and https://blog.ubuntu.com/2017/09/07/controlling-snap-releases-with-channels-tracks-and-branches-part-2.

Based on this, would it be possible to first clarify what is meant, in the UbuntuSeededSnaps policy page itself, and once it’s been determined that tracks are indeed what you want, we can look at the request again?

Also, since 18.04 and 18.10 are already released, could you describe the plan to “retrofit” the track into those releases? since as far as I can tell, the released images are pointing to latest/stable for the subiquity snap.

Thanks!

  • Daniel