Allow disabling common-directory removal code in tar source

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Project: craft-parts
Number: #237
Type: issue
State: open
Author: zyga
Labels: —
Created: 2022-06-21 06:23 PM UTC
Updated: 2025-03-11 02:29 PM UTC
Closed: —

Current evaluation

Feature request to add an option (e.g. source-strip-path) to control or disable the automatic stripping of the common top-level directory when extracting tar sources. No maintainer response; only a bot created an internal ticket. Stripping behavior still present in current code.

Suggested action: needs triage

Reason: The issue has no labels, no assignee, and its only comment is the syncronize-issues-to-jira bot (2024-05-17) creating internal ticket CRAFT-2968 — no maintainer has acknowledged, categorised, or prioritised it. The requested behaviour is still unimplemented: tar_source.py's filter_members() still unconditionally strips the common prefix, and no commit or related issue implements a source-strip-path option, so it remains a valid, actionable feature request awaiting triage.

Impact: 25 Quick Win: 15.0 Staleness: 72 Complexity: 40 Confidence: 80 Support Request: 10

Issue body

I have a snapcraft part using a tarball that has a specific top-level directory I want to preserve. Snapcraft strips this directory path during extraction, even before any customization hooks like override-build get to do anything. I think it would be nice to have a way to control this, perhaps `source-strip-path` which could be explicitly set (e.g. to an empty string) to disable the current auto-detection mechanism.

Evaluation history

Date	Model	Scores	Action	Summary
2026-09-01 06:29 AM UTC	qwen/qwen3.8-27b	Impact: 25 Quick Win: 15.0 Staleness: 72 Complexity: 40 Confidence: 80 Support Request: 10	needs triage	Feature request to add an option (e.g. source-strip-path) to control or disable the automatic stripping of the common top-level directory when extracting tar sources. No maintainer response; only a bot created an internal ticket. Stripping behavior still present in current code.
2026-07-22 01:24 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 92 Complexity: 35 Confidence: 80 Support Request: 15	close stale	Feature request to add a configuration option disabling automatic top-level directory stripping in snapcraft tar sources. Currently unaddressed and inactive for over a year.
2026-07-09 11:58 AM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 85 Complexity: 30 Confidence: 75 Support Request: 10	needs triage	Feature request to add a configuration option to disable automatic top-level directory stripping in tarball extraction. Unlabelled and unassessed by maintainers after over 4 years.
2026-06-20 02:51 AM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 85 Complexity: 30 Confidence: 80 Support Request: 10	needs triage	Request to disable automatic top-directory stripping in tarball extraction via a source-strip-path option. Open. Internal Jira ticket CRAFT-2968 created. Last activity 465 days ago.

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