Releasing a new snap is blocked by a previous uploading pending manual review
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Abandoned and closed without resolution. The issue highlighted that new snap releases are blocked when prior revisions require manual review, with no fix or improved status messaging implemented.
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Steps to reproduce:
1) Build a snap that will fail an automated review check. For example build a snap that contains only a shell script, and you'll hit "Could not find compiled binaries for architecture 'amd64' lint-snap-v2_architecture_specified_needed (amd64)"
2) Upload this snap with 'snapcraft push <snap> --release stable'. You'll get an error from snapcraft (I've filed a separate bug about that output not being particularly helpful).
3) Now fix the problem that the automated review tools were complaining about. In this example, include a binary in the snap (add 'stage-packages: wget' or similar).
4) Attempt to upload and release the new snap with: 'snapcraft push <snap> --release stable'
Expected behaviour:
I expect snapcraft to either release the new snap, or give me an error message if it fails review.
Observed behaviour:
What actually happens is that snapcraft gets stuck at the 'Processing' stage. This will continue until the previous release has either been manually accepted or rejected by a store reviewer. However, there's no indication in the snapcraft UI that this is the case.
IMO there's a few issues at play here:
1) The store shouldn't block a later revision from publication on an earlier revision needing manual review. Doing so makes the store less 'self-service' than we'd like, I think.
2) Snapcraft should point the user to the store page, or provide more information about what the current state is, and what it's waiting for.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Abandoned and closed without resolution. The issue highlighted that new snap releases are blocked when prior revisions require manual review, with no fix or improved status messaging implemented. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Abandoned. Closed without comments or a fix. New snap releases remain blocked by pending manual reviews of previous revisions. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Abandoned without resolution. The report detailing snapcraft blocking new releases due to pending manual reviews on prior revisions was closed due to prolonged inactivity and zero comments. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1602095 Uploading a snap that requires a manual review shows an error that's not great | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution. The issue reported a confusing error message during snap uploads requiring manual review, suggesting clearer diagnostics and instructions. With zero comments and no activity, it was abandoned. |