The JDK plugin results in a dangling symlink
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Current evaluation
Abandoned. The JDK plugin dangling symlink causing snap lint failures remains unaddressed due to lack of follow-up comments.
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Issue body
Using the JDK plugin results in a dangling symlink which in turn causes lint-snap-v2_external_symlinks to fail:
package contains external symlinks: usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/security/cacerts lint-snap-v2_external_symlinks
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Abandoned. The JDK plugin dangling symlink causing snap lint failures remains unaddressed due to lack of follow-up comments. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Abandoned and closed without fix. The JDK plugin creates a dangling symlink that triggers lint-snap-v2_external_symlinks failures. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution or comments. The dangling symlink issue in the JDK plugin causing lint failures was left unaddressed, likely abandoned due to inactivity. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1905 Remove dangling symlink from JDK plugin (LP Bug #1617296) | snapcraft | closed | Closed without merging. The proposed fix was deemed unnecessary after a bases refactor resolved the dangling symlink issue. Superseded by architectural changes. | |
| #761 Remove dangling symlink from JDK plugin | snapcraft | closed | Abandoned after reviewers questioned if removing the symlink would break CA certificate functionality. The author confirmed certs are still used but could not propose a fix. Another contributor could not reproduce the issue. Closed twice due to inactivity. | |
| #48 jdk plugin should create a virtual link from the actual java file to bin/java | snapcraft | closed | Closed and abandoned. The jdk plugin symlink feature was not implemented following a migration back to Launchpad for bug tracking. |