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snapcraft newly fails on ubuntu-image

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Metadata

Project
snapcraft (launchpad)
Number
#1626236
Type
issue
State
open
Author
~barry
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Current evaluation

snapcraft 2.17 on Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety) fails to copy the ubuntu-image CLI script to prime/usr/bin, causing a FileNotFoundError during build. No maintainer activity in ~10 years; affected versions are long EOL and the codebase has been fully restructured since.

Suggested action: close stale

Reason: The issue is ~10 years old (3631 days), references snapcraft 2.17 on Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety) — both long past EOL — and the modern snapcraft codebase (with parts, extensions, linters) has been completely restructured since then. The specific bug pattern of files not being staged into prime/ is a core snapcraft operation that would have been addressed in subsequent releases. No maintainer has ever responded or labelled the issue.

Impact: 20 Quick Win: 14.0 Staleness: 95 Complexity: 30 Confidence: 82 Support Request: 10

Issue body

This used to work, but we're getting a recent failure on Yakkety with snapcraft 2.17+16.10.1ubuntu3 You can reproduce this by: $ git clone https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/ubuntu-image.git $ snapcraft The new failure is: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/barry/projects/ubuntu/allsnappy/ubuntu-image/prime/usr/bin/ubuntu-image' and indeed, ubuntu-image doesn't appear in .../prime/usr/bin % find . -name ubuntu-image ./parts/ubuntu-image ./parts/ubuntu-image/install/bin/ubuntu-image ./parts/ubuntu-image/src/ubuntu-image ./parts/ubuntu-image/build/ubuntu-image ./stage/bin/ubuntu-image ./ubuntu-image The latter is the in-tree version. All the others are checksum identical, but it seems like the cli script isn't getting copied to the right place.

Evaluation history

Date Model Scores Action Summary
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Impact: 20
Quick Win: 14.0
Staleness: 95
Complexity: 30
Confidence: 82
Support Request: 10
close stale snapcraft 2.17 on Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety) fails to copy the ubuntu-image CLI script to prime/usr/bin, causing a FileNotFoundError during build. No maintainer activity in ~10 years; affected versions are long EOL and the codebase has been fully restructured since.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Staleness: 98
Complexity: 15
Confidence: 95
Support Request: 20
close stale Reports a missing binary in snapcraft's prime directory on Ubuntu 16.10 with snapcraft 2.17+. Issue has been inactive for nearly 10 years with no maintainer response.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Staleness: 98
Complexity: 20
Confidence: 95
Support Request: 10
close stale Bug report for snapcraft failing to copy ubuntu-image binary to prime directory during build on Ubuntu Yakkety. Unlabelled, no maintainer response, inactive for nearly 10 years.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6
Staleness: 98
Complexity: 20
Confidence: 95
Support Request: 10
close stale Build failure in snapcraft 2.17 on Ubuntu Yakkety where ubuntu-image binary is not copied to the prime directory. Issue is nearly 10 years old with no maintainer response.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6
Staleness: 99
Complexity: 25
Confidence: 95
Support Request: 5
close stale snapcraft regression blocks ubuntu-image builds by failing to copy the CLI script to prime/usr/bin. Unassigned, zero comments, and inactive for years. Requires triage and investigation to resolve the packaging path issue.

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Related work

  • Related To: snapcraft (launchpad)#1797378 (confidence 70%)

    Similar bug: built executable not copied to prime/bin/ in snapcraft v2.43.1, also open with no maintainer interaction for ~7.8 years.

  • Related To: snapcraft (launchpad)#1795171 (confidence 60%)

    Similar bug: snapcraft fails to find built executable under prime directory; closed without resolution, likely abandoned.

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