snapd

local documentation is not accessible from the chromium snap

Bug #1875860 reported by Matthias Klose on 2020-04-29

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	snapd	Fix Released	Low	Zygmunt Krynicki	snapd 2.46

Bug Description

trying to access

file:///usr/share/doc/python3-doc/html/index.html

with the chromium snap fails. this is a regression compared to the deb package.

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Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) wrote on 2020-04-29:

Ogra had the idea to provide a new implicit slot: host-documentation, that once connected would put /usr/share/doc form the host into the snap's mount namespace. Chromium and the other browsers could have a plug to connect to and would allow browsing documentation by default.

Changed in snapd:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) wrote on 2020-04-29:

This is fixed by https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/8578

Changed in snapd:
status:	Confirmed → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)

Paweł Stołowski (stolowski) on 2020-06-03

Changed in snapd:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) on 2020-06-23

Changed in snapd:
milestone:	none → 2.46

Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) on 2020-06-23

Changed in snapd:
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) wrote on 2020-07-02:

This has been merged into master and will be released as a part of snapd 2.46

Maintainers of browser snaps should add a new plug to their snaps, called "system-packages-doc", and work with the store team to auto-connect said interface. This will allow to use, for example, Firefox snap to browse local documentation files stored in /usr/share/doc/*

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote on 2020-07-02:

Added in the chromium snap: https://git.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-browser/+git/snap-from-source/commit/?id=bdf8e859a5475613bc2a0d1384579b9cac54abe8.