Why snapcraft clean ,clears apt-get cache and downloaded debian files ?
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Closed without resolution, likely abandoned or rejected. The report questioned snapcraft clean clearing apt cache and debs, requesting selective cleanup, but received no maintainer response.
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Snapcraft clears apt-get cache and download directory inside parts/application/ubuntu/ everytime user runs snapcraft clean ?? whats the benefit of that ??
Due to this user need to download approx 28mb (in my case) of apt cache (which include 7mb+ of icons which are useless or not required for building an application :D).
Like in a normal ubuntu system we do apt-get update to get new cache ,without deleting the older one , and do apt-get install somepackage (say its version 3) will not delete all apt downloaded packages cache to get new version of app, it keep the downloaded archives in cache which is usefull and saves your Internet data and bandwidth.
So this is a bug and should be resolved soon .
My suggestions for developers- create a new command to clean apt-archive and leave it up to the users if they wana delete old debs or not .
this will also allow him create packages when he will be off-line .
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution, likely abandoned or rejected. The report questioned snapcraft clean clearing apt cache and debs, requesting selective cleanup, but received no maintainer response. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed with no comments or resolution. The suggestion to preserve the apt cache was not implemented, indicating the issue was abandoned or marked as by design. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | The request to preserve apt cache during snapcraft clean was closed without discussion or resolution. The feature request was abandoned due to lack of maintainer response. |
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