Support human-friendly GPT partition types
Metadata
Current evaluation
Exposing common GPT partition type GUIDs as human-friendly aliases in imagecraft.yaml to simplify volume configuration remains stalled after initial triage.
Suggested action: keep open
Reason: The issue is a clearly scoped feature request, already triaged, and authored by a maintainer. It represents a valid enhancement that should remain in the backlog for future implementation.
Staleness:
35
Complexity:
25
Support Request:
5
Issue body
### Check existing issues
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### Request
Users should be allowed to enter arbitrary [GPT partition type GUIDs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_type_GUIDs), but most of the time they will be using a small handful of common values that are not at all memorable.
There is already an enum with the most common values, but this is not exposed for use in imagecraft.yaml: https://github.com/canonical/imagecraft/blob/3b5332749240449922ad195f37d635d41c346212/imagecraft/models/volume.py#L117-L130
### The problem it solves
Users are currently expected to enter full [GPT partition type GUIDs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_type_GUIDs) when filling in the `volumes` section in imagecraft.yaml: https://github.com/canonical/imagecraft/blob/3b5332749240449922ad195f37d635d41c346212/tests/conftest.py#L121-L135
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-01 12:13:06.544132+00:00 | qwen3.6-35b-moe-q4 |
Staleness:
35
Complexity:
25
Support Request:
5
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keep open | Exposing common GPT partition type GUIDs as human-friendly aliases in imagecraft.yaml to simplify volume configuration remains stalled after initial triage. |
| 2026-06-01 12:10:10.073933+00:00 | pending | — | — | — |