organize and stage keywords together mess up file conflict checking

Metadata

Project: snapcraft (launchpad)
Number: #1663002
Type: issue
State: open
Author: ~mrjogo
Labels: —
Created: 2017-02-08 07:10 PM UTC
Updated: 2017-02-13 06:45 PM UTC
Closed: —

Current evaluation

Bug: combining organize and stage keywords makes snapcraft's file-conflict check inconsistent — a conflict error appears for staged paths but not pre-organize paths, so a duplicate file overwrites. Unlabelled, no maintainer response, inactive ~9.5 years.

Suggested action: close stale

Reason: Filed 3491 days ago with last activity 3486 days ago, 0 comments, no labels, and no maintainer acknowledgement from an external contributor. Snapcraft has since been completely rewritten (the current tree is the modern parts/models architecture), so the specific organize/stage conflict-checking code paths described are from a long-unsupported version and the original problem is very likely no longer reproducible. I could not confirm a fixing PR via tools, so confidence is moderate.

Impact: 40 Quick Win: 18.0 Staleness: 95 Complexity: 55 Confidence: 55 Support Request: 10

Issue body

The following snapcraft.yaml section gives a file conflict error ("Parts 'part1' and 'part2' have the following file paths in common which have different contents"): parts: part1: plugin: dump source: ./src1 organize: '*': opt/ stage: - -opt/commonfile.txt part2: plugin: dump source: ./src2 organize: '*': opt/ stage: - -opt/commonfile.txt However, when both stage keywords are changed to stage: - -commonfile.txt no errors are given, but commonfile.txt is copied into stage (with the later one overwriting the first). See attachment for full example.

Evaluation history

Date	Model	Scores	Action	Summary
2026-09-01 06:33 AM UTC	qwen/qwen3.8-27b	Impact: 40 Quick Win: 18.0 Staleness: 95 Complexity: 55 Confidence: 55 Support Request: 10	close stale	Bug: combining organize and stage keywords makes snapcraft's file-conflict check inconsistent — a conflict error appears for staged paths but not pre-organize paths, so a duplicate file overwrites. Unlabelled, no maintainer response, inactive ~9.5 years.
2026-07-23 02:07 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 55 Confidence: 85 Support Request: 10	close stale	Snapcraft file conflict checking fails when combining organize and stage keywords, causing incorrect staging behavior. Unlabelled, no maintainer response, inactive for over 9 years.
2026-07-22 01:24 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 60 Confidence: 85 Support Request: 10	close stale	Bug in snapcraft where using organize and stage directives together incorrectly triggers file conflict errors or causes silent overwrites. Unresponded to for over 9 years.
2026-07-09 12:17 PM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 40 Confidence: 85 Support Request: 10	close stale	Bug report regarding file conflict checking when using organize and stage keywords in snapcraft.yaml. Issue is over 9 years old with no maintainer interaction or labels, indicating the affected version and behavior are likely obsolete.
2026-06-20 03:32 AM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 25 Confidence: 90 Support Request: 5	close stale	Incorrect file conflict detection when combining organize and stage keywords in snapcraft.yaml causes false positives or silent overwrites. Unassigned, no comments, inactive for years, requires triage and fix.

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