Your first snap: snapcraft clean needed before second snapcraft stage
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Closed and abandoned without resolution. The issue highlights a documentation gap where the Ubuntu snap tutorial skips steps on re-runs unless snapcraft clean is run first. No fix or update was applied.
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Issue body
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/build-apps/your-first-snap/
After the first snapcraft stage the docs tell you to add a dependency (fswebcam). After doing this and calling snapcraft stage again fswebcam is not downloaded, instead all steps are skipped.
Skipping pull cam (already ran)
Skipping build cam (already ran)
Skipping stage cam (already ran)
A snapcraft clean is needed before the second snapcraft stage for this to function as expected.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed and abandoned without resolution. The issue highlights a documentation gap where the Ubuntu snap tutorial skips steps on re-runs unless snapcraft clean is run first. No fix or update was applied. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Documentation corrected to require snapcraft clean before re-running snapcraft stage after adding dependencies. Issue closed as resolved. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Resolved by updating the documentation to specify running snapcraft clean before re-running stage after adding dependencies, preventing skipped build steps. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
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| #1615060 snapcraft clean is incomplete | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Reporting that snapcraft clean skips local .snap files was closed without comments or resolution, indicating the report was abandoned or left unresolved. | |
| #1561328 cleaning a step on a dir built with an old snapcraft doesn't mention that a full clean is needed too | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution. The error message for cleaning steps on legacy snapcraft builds was not updated to recommend a full clean first. The issue appears abandoned with no fix or follow-up provided. | |
| #1799925 snapcraft gives conflicting advice for cleaning parts | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without a fix. Snapcraft incorrectly advised running snapcraft clean with part and step flags, which were unsupported. The author worked around it with a full clean. The report appears abandoned or superseded by later updates. | |
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| #1663623 Changing stage-packages requires cleaning the pull stage | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution. Snapcraft incorrectly requiring a pull stage clean after stage-packages changes was abandoned or superseded by later versions. | |
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