Support automatically cleaning dirty steps
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Automatic cleaning of dirty steps in the snapcraft CLI was closed and abandoned due to inactivity. No implementation or resolution was provided.
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Issue body
The snapcraft CLI currently errors out if a given step has already run, but changed since doing so (e.g. is a part has been pulled, but then has a `stage-package` added). We should support automatically cleaning these.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Automatic cleaning of dirty steps in the snapcraft CLI was closed and abandoned due to inactivity. No implementation or resolution was provided. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Requesting automatic cleaning of dirty steps in snapcraft was closed without implementation. Zero comments and no resolution indicate the feature request was abandoned due to inactivity. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed without implementation. The feature request to automatically clean dirty steps in the snapcraft CLI was abandoned after eight years with no comments or associated pull requests. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1647907 When a step is dirty, snapcraft doesn't autoclean and reexecute it | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution. The request for automatic dirty-step cleaning was abandoned due to prolonged inactivity. | |
| #1561328 cleaning a step on a dir built with an old snapcraft doesn't mention that a full clean is needed too | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution. The error message for cleaning steps on legacy snapcraft builds was not updated to recommend a full clean first. The issue appears abandoned with no fix or follow-up provided. | |
| #1774015 Cleaning breaks tried snap | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution. The snapcraft CLI and snapd disconnect causing snapcraft clean to break snap try states remains unfixed due to inactivity. |