Re-building "snapcraft" part after failure fails at intltool-update

Metadata

Project: snapcraft (launchpad)
Number: #1751773
Type: issue
State: open
Author: ~kalikiana
Labels: —
Created: 2018-02-26 12:25 PM UTC
Updated: 2018-02-26 12:25 PM UTC
Closed: —

Current evaluation

Rebuilding the snapcraft part with SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS=1 fails on the second build: python-apt wheel build needs intltool-update, missing from the environment. No comments or labels; the self-build flow no longer exists in current snapcraft.

Suggested action: close stale

Reason: The issue is 3108 days old with 0 comments, no labels, and no maintainer interaction, and it targets the legacy SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS self-build flow (building snapcraft from a tarball via requirements.txt) that no longer exists in the current codebase, which has been fully restructured into the modern snapcraft/ package layout. The original problem (missing intltool-update during python-apt's build_i18n step) is no longer reproducible in any supported version.

Impact: 5 Quick Win: 3.5 Staleness: 95 Complexity: 30 Confidence: 70 Support Request: 10

Issue body

Re-building Snapcraft in a container fails the second time around. $ export SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS=1 $ snapcraft Preparing to build snapcraft Building snapcraft [...] Building wheels for collected packages: snapcraft, python-apt, python-distutils-extra Running setup.py bdist_wheel for snapcraft ... done Stored in directory: /tmp/tmp4in0p1di Running setup.py bdist_wheel for python-apt ... error [...] running build_i18n intltool-update -p -g python-apt unable to execute 'intltool-update': No such file or directory error: command 'intltool-update' failed with exit status 1 ---------------------------------------- Failed building wheel for python-apt Running setup.py clean for python-apt Running setup.py bdist_wheel for python-distutils-extra ... done Stored in directory: /tmp/tmp4in0p1di Successfully built snapcraft python-distutils-extra Failed to build python-apt ERROR: Failed to build one or more wheels [...] subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/bin/sh', '/tmp/tmp9ue9lv4j', '/root/build_snapcraft/stage/usr/bin/python3', '-m', 'pip', 'wheel', '--disable-pip-version-check', '--no-index', '--find-links', '/root/build_snapcraft/parts/snapcraft/packages', '--wheel-dir', '/tmp/tmp4in0p1di', '--requirement', '/root/build_snapcraft/parts/snapcraft/src/requirements.txt', '.']' returned non-zero exit status 1 The "snapcraft" part is using Python and installs python-apt from a tarball via requirements.txt.

Evaluation history

Date	Model	Scores	Action	Summary
2026-09-01 08:10 AM UTC	qwen/qwen3.8-27b	Impact: 5 Quick Win: 3.5 Staleness: 95 Complexity: 30 Confidence: 70 Support Request: 10	close stale	Rebuilding the snapcraft part with SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS=1 fails on the second build: python-apt wheel build needs intltool-update, missing from the environment. No comments or labels; the self-build flow no longer exists in current snapcraft.
2026-07-23 11:55 AM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 35 Confidence: 90 Support Request: 10	close stale	Build failure when rebuilding snapcraft in a container due to missing intltool-update during python-apt compilation. No maintainer interaction for over 8 years.
2026-07-22 12:19 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 100 Complexity: 40 Confidence: 90 Support Request: 20	close stale	Re-building snapcraft in a container fails on the second attempt due to missing 'intltool-update' command during python-apt wheel build. Issue is extremely old with no activity.
2026-07-09 11:20 PM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 15 Confidence: 90 Support Request: 20	close stale	Container build failure during snapcraft rebuild due to missing intltool dependency while compiling python-apt. No maintainer interaction in over 8 years.
2026-06-21 01:29 PM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-moe-q4	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 15 Confidence: 90 Support Request: 20	close stale	Build fails on second run due to missing intltool dependency when building python-apt in a container. Issue is 8+ years old with no maintainer interaction.

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