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Use snap:// URLs rather than appstream:// ones on snap only distros

Kevin Ottens requested to merge work/ervin/use-snap-urls-on-snaponly-distros into master

Ubuntu Core systems only provide snap as a way to install software so add a way to spot those. To that effect we use the non-standard UBUNTU_VARIANT key in os-release to detect Ubuntu Core.

Not all the snaps in the snapstore declare proper appdata for their package. So using only appstream:// URLs might lead to not found packages on snap only distros like Ubuntu Core. If we detect Ubuntu Core we use snap:// URLs instead.

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