Snaps: a failed experiment

[Sam Varshavchik]

Oliver Grawert writes:

> The mozillateam is mainly a few developers from Canonical from the
> security and desktop teams (I think there is also a mozilla dev
> involved, but mozilla is definitely not running this PPA).
>
> The PPA exists solely for building, backporting and testing security
> updates for older LTS releases, once 16.04 is out of commercial support
> all older LTS releases will eventually be defaulting to the snap in
> which case this PPA will silently go away and people that use it will
> not recieve any updates for the browser anymore without even getting a
> notification (since the PPA was never purposed to be used by endusers
> in teh first place)...
>
> Use the archive provided by mozilla themselves or use the self-updating
> firefox tarball if you want to be sure to keep getting updates ...

That's useful information, done and done. Thanks. Time will tell how well  
this works out in the long run. Comparing the packages, PPA's package  
included some bits that went into /etc/apparmor.d, while mozilla.org's  
package did not (nor surprising, since it appears that the mozilla.org  
package is for multiple distros). However there's an existing /etc/ 
apparmor.d/firefox that's installed by the apparmor package itself. I  
haven't analyzed what effect it does or does not have. So far, though, the  
basic functionality seems to work fine in a VNC session.

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