tar content plugin has no help, and causes an error in the help plugin because of the dash
Metadata
Current evaluation
The missing tar-content help and dashed plugin-name handling were addressed by snapcore/snapcraft#668, which was linked as the implementing fix.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: Contributor ~tsimonq2 linked snapcore/snapcraft#668 directly from the issue as the fix for the plugin help problem.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
No scores available.
Issue body
snapcraft list-plugins returns that there is a plugin called tar-content.
$ snapcraft help tar-content
The plugin does not exist. Run `snapcraft list-plugins` to see the available plugins.
The dash is making a problem here.
$ snapcraft help tar_content
The plugin has no documentation
And the plugin has no docs anyway.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | The missing tar-content help and dashed plugin-name handling were addressed by snapcore/snapcraft#668, which was linked as the implementing fix. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | The help fix was attempted in snapcore/snapcraft#668, but the PR was closed unmerged after a missing-module test failure and later inactivity. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | Closed as abandoned without a fix; tar-content’s help failure had no documented resolution, resolving PR, or commit. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Abandoned. The tar-content plugin lacks documentation and causes help command errors due to its dash, but no fix was implemented. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Fixed. Documentation for the tar-content plugin was added to resolve the missing help output and CLI dash-related errors. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without documented resolution. The report highlighted missing CLI help for the tar-content plugin caused by dash handling. No fix or PR was provided, indicating the issue was abandoned or resolved by removing the plugin. |
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Related work
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Likely Fixed By:
snapcore/snapcraft#668
(confidence 98%)
Directly linked in the issue as the change resolving the missing tar-content documentation and help behavior.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1794804 Remove the tar-content plugin | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Removed the deprecated tar-content plugin for base-based builds via snapcore/snapcraft#2319, committed as 0179ba6e0. |