license.txt and snap/ directory

[Sergio Schvezov]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 23:09:04 +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 06/02/17 00:00, Sergio Schvezov wrote:
>> We removed all traces of license.txt from our
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>> drop license file inside the snap wherever you want.
>
> Just to follow up a little here: I'm honestly not sure I like 
> this change.  It 
> may not be used by snapd but it makes sense that there should 
> be an expectation 
> that each snap package will contain a license file in a 
> standardized location, 
> and there should be a standardized way of providing it.

If it is not defined anywhere though, this is just a de-facto standard as it really is upto each person creating there snap about where to put it.

> Related to the 2.26 changes: I notice that as of 2.26 any 
> generated package now 
> includes a `snap/` directory, even though the `gui` and `snap.yaml` files 
> included with the generated package still wind up in the `meta/` directory.
>
> Is this a transitional change (with `snap/` being the intended long-term 
> location for metadata) or just a bug?

Files owned by snapcraft will go in snap, files owned by snapd will go in snapd. All the command wrappers that snapcraft creates will also go in here.

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