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Suggests regenerating credential without telling you how

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Metadata

Project
snapcraft (launchpad)
Number
#1980533
Type
issue
State
open
Author
~seb128
Labels
craft-1181
Created
Updated
Closed

Current evaluation

Request to improve the 'Provided credentials are no longer valid for the Snap Store' error from snapcraft release to explain how to regenerate credentials (e.g. snapcraft login or docs link). No maintainer response; inactive for ~4 years.

Suggested action: needs triage

Reason: The issue has 0 comments, no assignee, and no maintainer acknowledgement (only an auto-style 'craft-1181' label), so it has never been assessed. It is a small UX improvement (adding a hint like 'snapcraft login' or a docs link to the 'Regenerate them and try again' message), but I could not verify whether that exact message still exists in the current snapcraft codebase, so a maintainer should confirm before closing or fixing.

Impact: 15 Quick Win: 12.75 Staleness: 85 Complexity: 15 Confidence: 55 Support Request: 25

Issue body

snapcraft installed: 7.0.8 (7779) $ snapcraft release gnome-3-28-1804 160 stable/ubuntu-22.10 Provided credentials are no longer valid for the Snap Store. Recommended resolution: Regenerate them and try again. But I've no idea how to regenerate credentials, maybe the suggestion could include a more specific hit? (parameter to use for snapcraft, web documentation)

Evaluation history

Date Model Scores Action Summary
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Impact: 15
Quick Win: 12.75
Staleness: 85
Complexity: 15
Confidence: 55
Support Request: 25
needs triage Request to improve the 'Provided credentials are no longer valid for the Snap Store' error from snapcraft release to explain how to regenerate credentials (e.g. snapcraft login or docs link). No maintainer response; inactive for ~4 years.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Staleness: 95
Complexity: 10
Confidence: 85
Support Request: 15
close stale Request to improve error messaging when Snap Store credentials expire. The suggestion lacks implementation details or documentation links. No maintainer response or activity in over 3 years.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Staleness: 92
Complexity: 15
Confidence: 85
Support Request: 10
close stale Request to improve the invalid credential error message by adding regeneration instructions or documentation links. Unaddressed for over four years with zero maintainer interaction.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Staleness: 75
Complexity: 20
Confidence: 85
Support Request: 60
needs triage User reports unclear error message when credentials expire, requesting specific regeneration instructions in the CLI output.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6
Staleness: 90
Complexity: 15
Confidence: 85
Support Request: 10
needs triage Unassessed feature request to improve snapcraft error messaging when credentials expire. Suggests adding regeneration instructions to the error output. No maintainer response in over four years.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6
Staleness: 95
Complexity: 10
Confidence: 85
Support Request: 15
close stale Very old issue requesting better error messaging for invalid Snapcraft credentials. No maintainer response or comments in over four years.

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Related work

  • Related To: canonical/snapcraft#6098 (confidence 40%)

    Merged PR tweaking a different credential error message (SNAPCRAFT_STORE_CREDENTIALS env var), showing maintainers do improve credential-related error wording, but it does not address this specific 'no longer valid' message.

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