snap: Delete support

The snap packaging hasn't been updated in a few years. It also had some issues with the sandboxing (see bpftrace#829). Now that we have our own portable mechanism via appimages (4c24ee9), let's just delete snap support.
danobi · Nov 17, 2023 · 32143d1 · 32143d1
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@@ -101,15 +101,6 @@ sudo apt-get install -y bpftrace
 
 Should work on Ubuntu 19.04 and later.
 
-On Ubuntu 16.04 and later, bpftrace is also available as a snap package (https://snapcraft.io/bpftrace), however, the snap provides extremely limited file permissions so the --devmode option should be specified on installation in order avoid file access issues.
-
-```
-sudo snap install --devmode bpftrace
-sudo snap connect bpftrace:system-trace
-```
-
-The snap package also currently has issues with uprobes ([#829](https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/issues/829)).
-
 ## Fedora package
 
 For Fedora 28 (and later), bpftrace is already included in the official repo. Just install the package with dnf.

diff --git a/snap/snapcraft.yaml b/snap/snapcraft.yaml