Snapcraft should use "prime" keyword instead of "snap"
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Current evaluation
Closed without resolution. Snapcraft 2.17's lack of support for the prime keyword was superseded by newer versions. No comments or fixes were applied.
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Issue body
http://snapcraft.io/docs/reference/plugins/common
Snapcraft 2.17 doesn't recognize the 'prime' keyword, uses 'snap' instead.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution. Snapcraft 2.17's lack of support for the prime keyword was superseded by newer versions. No comments or fixes were applied. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Abandoned. Closed without resolution or comments, likely superseded by upstream Snapcraft updates that later adopted the 'prime' keyword. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed as abandoned due to prolonged inactivity. No comments or fixes were implemented, leaving the reported Snapcraft keyword recognition problem unresolved. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed without discussion. The issue was abandoned or superseded by newer Snapcraft versions that natively support the prime keyword. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1838098 snapcraft prime fails if it finds an invalid ELF file | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without a fix. Snapcraft prime crashed on invalid ELF files due to an uncaught ELFError. With zero comments and no PR, the report was abandoned or superseded by newer versions handling malformed binaries gracefully. | |
| #1795171 snapcraft fail to find built executable under prime $SNAP | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution or comments, likely abandoned. The issue reported a FileNotFoundError when Snapcraft failed to expand the $SNAP variable in the prime directory path during build. | |
| #1710254 snapcraft doesn't fail if the command exists in the host but not in the prime directory | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution. Snapcraft incorrectly validates app commands against the host system rather than the prime directory during the prime step, leaving the bug unfixed. |