How to re-build snap against up-to-date packages ------------------------------------------------ The snap's owner (currently Alexander Batischev) might receive an email from the Snap Store saying: > Subject: newsboat contains outdated Ubuntu packages > > A scan of this snap shows that it was built with packages from the Ubuntu > archive that have since received security updates. The following lists new > USNs for affected binary packages in each snap revision: > > [snip] > > Simply rebuilding the snap will pull in the new security updates and resolve > this. If your snap also contains vendored code, now might be a good time to > review it for any needed updates. This document outlines how to rebuild the snap and push it out. You'll need: - a machine with Snap installed (I'm using a virtual machine running Ubuntu 20.04); - login and password for the snap's owner account. 1. Navigate to your local clone of Newsboat. 2. Check out the latest release tag: `git checkout r2.20.1`. 3. Submit a remote build for all architectures mentioned in the email: $ snapcraft remote-build --build-on=s390x,ppc64el,arm64,armhf,amd64,i386 4. Wait for the build to finish. It will create .snap files in the current directory. 5. Upload built snaps to the Store, releasing them into all channels: $ for i in *.snap; do snapcraft upload --release=beta,candidate,stable $i ; done 6. Remove built snaps: `rm -f *.snap newsboat*txt`.