mishandled private git+ssh repo url
Metadata
Current evaluation
Snapcraft 7.2.8 treats a git+ssh:// source URL as a local file path when cloning a private Launchpad repo, so git clone fails. No maintainer response in over 3 years; the pip-style scheme is invalid for git, which only accepts ssh:// or user@host:path forms.
Suggested action: close not a bug
Reason: The reported failure is working as intended: 'git+ssh://' is a pip-style scheme that neither git nor craft-parts recognizes as a remote URL, so it is (correctly) treated as a local path, as shown by the 'file:///home/ubuntu/test-snap/git+ssh://...' clone command in the error. The user should use 'ssh://git.launchpad.net/~my-team/me/+git/my-project' or 'git@launchpad.net:~my-team/me/+git/my-project' instead; at most a clearer error message for unrecognized schemes could be filed separately.
Impact:
15
Quick Win:
12.75
Staleness:
85
Complexity:
15
Confidence:
60
Support Request:
80
Issue body
when using a private git repository from Launchpad, snapcraft fails to fetch the repo content as it tries to convert url to the local path
name: test-snap
base: core22
parts:
private-repo:
plugin: dump
source: git+ssh://git.launchpad.net/~my-team/me/+git/my-project
source-type: git
source-branch: main
source-depth: 1
prime:
- -*
This example will result in the following error:
Failed to pull source: command ['git', 'clone', '--recursive', '--branch', 'upstream', '--depth', '1', 'file:///home/ubuntu/test-snap/git+ssh://git.launchpad.net/~my-team/me/+git/my-project', PosixPath('/home/ubuntu/host/test-snap/parts/private-repo/src')] exited with code 128.
snapcraft 7.2.8.post26+git15d684d5
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.8-27b |
Impact:
15
Quick Win:
12.75
Staleness:
85
Complexity:
15
Confidence:
60
Support Request:
80
|
close not a bug | Snapcraft 7.2.8 treats a git+ssh:// source URL as a local file path when cloning a private Launchpad repo, so git clone fails. No maintainer response in over 3 years; the pip-style scheme is invalid for git, which only accepts ssh:// or user@host:path forms. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
95
Complexity:
35
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | Snapcraft incorrectly converts private git+ssh URLs to local file paths, causing fetch failures. The report is over three years old with no maintainer engagement or updates. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
95
Complexity:
40
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
5
|
close stale | Bug report detailing snapcraft incorrectly converting a git+ssh URL to a local file path during clone, causing a git clone failure. Unlabelled, zero comments, over 3 years old. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
90
Complexity:
40
Confidence:
75
Support Request:
5
|
close stale | snapcraft fails to fetch private git+ssh repositories by incorrectly converting the URL to a local file path. The issue is over 3 years old with no maintainer interaction. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
95
Complexity:
35
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
5
|
close stale | Snapcraft incorrectly converts git+ssh URLs to local file paths when cloning private repositories, causing clone failures. Status remains open, untriaged, and inactive for over three years with no comments or assignees. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #2053119 Pulling from private repository with passphrase protected key fails | snapcraft (launchpad) | open | snapcraft --bind-ssh fails to prompt for passphrase when using passphrase-protected SSH keys to clone private repositories. Untriaged, no maintainer response after 933 days. | |
| #1516228 missing " git://" in the source crashes the snapcraft | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution. The snapcraft crash from missing git:// source prefixes was abandoned. Modern snapcraft versions enforce explicit protocol specification or handle defaults gracefully. | |
| #5661 Snapcraft hangs forever if a GitHub repository doesn't exist | snapcraft | open | Snapcraft hangs indefinitely on Pulling when a git source is missing/private because git prompts for credentials. Triaged by maintainers; fix identified (GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0) but must be implemented in craft-parts, not yet done. | |
| #1979529 local git repositories cannot be cloned | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Abandoned. Local git repositories could not be cloned via source-type: git. A workaround using SNAPCRAFT_PROJECT_DIR in override-build was provided. No resolution was implemented. |