A whitelist mistake in snapcraft.yaml makes snapcraft fail with no explanation
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Closed without resolution, likely abandoned or marked as user error. The report described a cryptic error caused by a configuration mistake in snapcraft.yaml. No fixes or comments were recorded.
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Issue body
My whitelist mistake in lp:mircade-snap [1] was:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/25069400/
This resulted in snacpraft failing with a useless error message:
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/build_mircade/parts/games/install/usr'
Sounds like some schema checks didn't work well enough?
[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~alan-griffiths/mircade-snap/trunk/files/58
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution, likely abandoned or marked as user error. The report described a cryptic error caused by a configuration mistake in snapcraft.yaml. No fixes or comments were recorded. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed as invalid or abandoned. The report described a user configuration error in snapcraft.yaml causing a confusing failure message. No fix was implemented or follow-up comments provided. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Abandoned and closed as invalid due to user configuration error. No code changes or error message improvements were implemented. The report received no resolution. |
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