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authorDS <commits@sidhion.com>2024-03-01 03:03:42 -0800
committerDS <commits@sidhion.com>2024-03-04 22:22:14 -0800
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snapTools: remove
`snapTools.makeSnap` has produced broken snaps since at least Oct 2020,
as indicated by the following issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/100618

No person has shown interest in maintaining it, and given that there is
no fix available, it's assumed that all attempts made to fix that
function have not succeeded.

Given that `snapTools` only contained `makeSnap`, it was removed
completely.
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/top-level')
-rw-r--r--pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 5ece348a9304..80c19328c640 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   tarsum = callPackage ../build-support/docker/tarsum.nix { };
 
-  snapTools = callPackage ../build-support/snap { };
+  snapTools = throw "snapTools was removed because makeSnap produced broken snaps and it was the only function in snapTools. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/100618 for more details."; # 2024-03-04;
 
   nix-prefetch-docker = callPackage ../build-support/docker/nix-prefetch-docker.nix { };