webbrowser-app silently being excluded from stage-packages

Metadata

Project: snapcraft (launchpad)
Number: #1642350
Type: issue
State: open
Author: ~mterry
Labels: —
Created: 2016-11-16 05:55 PM UTC
Updated: 2016-11-22 06:23 PM UTC
Closed: —

Current evaluation

Launchpad-generated unity8-session snap silently excluded webbrowser-app from stage-packages on xenial. 9+ years old, zero comments, no labels, no maintainer response. Xenial is EOL and unity8-session is no longer relevant to modern snapcraft.

Suggested action: close stale

Reason: The issue is 3575 days old with zero comments, no labels, and no maintainer interaction. It references xenial (Ubuntu 16.04) which reached EOL in 2021, and the specific unity8-session snap it concerns is no longer built or maintained. The Launchpad build environment issue described is no longer reproducible or relevant to current snapcraft versions.

Impact: 5 Quick Win: 3.75 Staleness: 95 Complexity: 25 Confidence: 85 Support Request: 60

Issue body

I'm not sure what the story is here. We have the unity8-session snap we're working on. There's a silo with a Launchpad-generated snap in it [1]. But that generated snap is not including one of the stage-packages. And I'm not sure why. Specifically, it's not including webbrowser-app, which is directly listed in stage-packages. But in the silo build logs, it's not mentioned anywhere [2]. When building locally on xenial, it is included. Are there known reasons why this would happen? [1] https://bileto.ubuntu.com/#/ticket/2129 [2] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/293688704/buildlog_snap_ubuntu_xenial_amd64_unity8-session-silo_BUILDING.txt.gz

Evaluation history

Date	Model	Scores	Action	Summary
2026-09-01 07:34 AM UTC	qwen/qwen3.8-27b	Impact: 5 Quick Win: 3.75 Staleness: 95 Complexity: 25 Confidence: 85 Support Request: 60	close stale	Launchpad-generated unity8-session snap silently excluded webbrowser-app from stage-packages on xenial. 9+ years old, zero comments, no labels, no maintainer response. Xenial is EOL and unity8-session is no longer relevant to modern snapcraft.
2026-07-23 11:50 AM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 35 Confidence: 90 Support Request: 75	close stale	Launchpad snap build silently excludes webbrowser-app from stage-packages despite explicit listing. Issue is over 9 years old with no maintainer response or activity.
2026-07-22 12:18 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 40 Confidence: 95 Support Request: 60	close stale	Snap build on Launchpad silently excludes webbrowser-app from stage-packages despite explicit listing. Issue is over 9 years old with no maintainer response or comments.
2026-07-09 07:41 PM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 30 Confidence: 90 Support Request: 20	close stale	Report about webbrowser-app being silently excluded from stage-packages during Launchpad snap builds. Issue is extremely old, inactive, and references obsolete Ubuntu Xenial environment.
2026-06-20 07:26 PM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 45 Confidence: 90 Support Request: 15	close stale	webbrowser-app silently excluded from stage-packages during Launchpad snap builds despite being listed and working locally. Remains open, unassigned, and inactive with zero comments or updates since creation.

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Related work

Duplicate Of: snapcraft (launchpad)#1642350 (confidence 90%)
Same issue tracked on Launchpad as bug 1642350, also open with no activity.

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