Validation For Snap Maintenance

[boukendesho]

@ncw Hello team, can i please get an upstream nod or approval for maintaining snap packages, i wish to publish snap packages under the name rclone , and to get the rclone name, the snapcraft community is asking for upstream approval or acknowledgement officially, please comment or reply back by acknowledging that snap packages by me has received approval for unofficial way of distributing rclone in snap store, your coordination and favour will be sincerely appreciated.

Here my snap repo

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[ncw]

This is an excellent idea, thank you @boukendesho

Please go ahead and take up maintenance of the snap package.

Let me know if you need and help.

[kapitainsky]

Excellent idea given how outdated are official linux repos regarding rclone.

One pence worth of advice:

please add

    plugs:
      - removable-media

to your snap yaml

Otherwise snap installed rclone won't be able to access any mounted drives as snap is heavily sandboxed. You will probably have to explain to snapcraft community why rclone needs it. Should be straightforward in this case.

It is something I discovered when publishing other software using snap.

When it is live please send PR to update https://rclone.org/install/ page - so people can find this new way of installing.

[boukendesho]

@kapitainsky Got it, thank you!

[boukendesho]

Many thanks to all of you!