Call for testing axel

[github-actions]

A new version (2.17.12) of axel was just pushed to the latest/candidate channel in the snap store. The following revisions are available.

CPU Architecture	Revision
amd64	198
arm64	200
armhf	196
ppc64el	199
s390x	197

Automated screenshots

The snap will be installed in a VM automatically; screenshots will be posted as a comment on this issue shortly.

How to test it manually

1. Stop the application if it was already running

2. Upgrade to this version by running

   snap refresh axel --channel latest/candidate

3. Start the app and test it out.

4. Finally, add a comment below explaining whether this app is working, and include the output of the following command.

   snap version; lscpu | grep Architecture; snap info axel | grep installed

How to release it

Maintainers can promote this to stable by commenting /promote <rev>[,<rev>] latest/stable [done].

For example

• To promote a single revision, run /promote <rev> latest/stable
• To promote multiple revisions, run /promote <rev>,<rev> latest/stable
• To promote a revision and close the issue, run /promote <rev>,<rev> latest/stable done

You can promote all revisions that were just built with:

/promote 198,200,196,199,197 latest/stable done

[lengau]

$ snap version; lscpu | grep Architecture; snap info axel | grep installed
snap    2.61.1
snapd   2.61.1
series  16
ubuntu  24.04
kernel  6.6.0-14-generic
Architecture:                       x86_64
installed:          2.17.12            (198) 1MB -

Snap appears to be working correctly on amd64

[lengau]

/promote 198,200,196,199,197 latest/stable done

[github-actions]

The following revisions were released to the latest/stable channel: 198,200,196,199,197.

[lengau]

Tested on arm64 and ppc64el as well