[Bug 1979845] Re: contact: information not available in "Try Ubuntu" environment

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

this entirely due to how free-form preseeded snaps yaml file is
generated.

when using snapd tooling to create one, contact-info is extracted and
stored inside seed.yaml.

when livecd-rootfs creates preseeding file itself, it doesn't encode
such information in the seed.yaml, but it should.

if one doesn't have network connectivity / didn't refresh snaps in the
live system, the contact details will not be avaiable.

please fix livecd-rootfs to populate more complete seed.yaml with
contact info details. (specifically _snap_preseed function).

Unofortunately, snpad preseed tooling doesn't support incremental
add/remove/append snaps to seed.yaml. Hence at the moment it is not
possible to replace manual seed.yaml creation in livecd-rootfs with the
one provided by snapd tooling. See
https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/8791

** Also affects: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  contact: information not available in "Try Ubuntu" environment

Status in snap-store-desktop:
  New
Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in snapd package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  snap info snap-store will show the contact info for the snap-store
  snap on an installed Ubuntu 22.04 system e.g. contact:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/snap-store/. However, when I used the same
  command on an Ubuntu 22.10 “Kinetic Kudu” image dated 20220608 (in the
  Try Ubuntu environment) the contact: information was not visible.

  The Ubuntu 22.04 system has snapd version 2.55.5+22.04 installed and
  the live system has snapd version 2.56+22.10 installed.

  The contact: information is important because it is used by apport to
  determine where to file bug reports about the snap.

  I also tried an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS final image and contact: information
  was also missing in the live environment.

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