webbrowser-app silently being excluded from stage-packages
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Current evaluation
2016 report: webbrowser-app, though listed in stage-packages, was silently omitted from a Launchpad silo build of unity8-session while present locally. Reporter de-prioritized it, root cause never identified, no maintainer response.
Suggested action: needs triage
Reason: The issue has zero labels, no assignee, and the only comment is from the reporter himself ('something was definitely wonky here that merits investigation'), so no maintainer has ever assessed it — yet it is a still-open, plausible bug (silent stage-packages drop producing a wrong snap) and a modern relative is still open (snapcraft#1885074, 'stage-packages behaviour inconsistent'). A git-log/grep sweep found no resolving commit, so it cannot be closed as fixed; it also cannot be closed as stale since snapcraft's stage-packages code still exists and only core16 support was dropped ('many: remove support for core (and core16)'). Reproducing is hard, however: the xenial silo build log from 2016 is external and likely expired, so investigation would be required before any fix.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
Issue body
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha |
Impact:
25
Quick Win:
2
Complexity:
72
Confidence:
62
Actionability:
22
|
needs triage | 2016 report: webbrowser-app, though listed in stage-packages, was silently omitted from a Launchpad silo build of unity8-session while present locally. Reporter de-prioritized it, root cause never identified, no maintainer response. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha |
Impact:
30
Quick Win:
2
Complexity:
70
Confidence:
62
Actionability:
22
|
close stale | 2016 report that webbrowser-app, though listed in stage-packages, was absent from a Launchpad silo build log for the unity8-session snap while present in local builds; reporter de-prioritized it, root cause never found | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Impact:
20
Quick Win:
4
Complexity:
30
Confidence:
50
Actionability:
30
|
needs triage | webbrowser-app silently excluded from stage-packages in unity8-session snap build on Xenial; no maintainer response in 10 years | |
| qwen/qwen3.8-27b |
Impact:
5
Quick Win:
4
Staleness:
95
Complexity:
25
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
60
|
close stale | Launchpad-generated unity8-session snap silently excluded webbrowser-app from stage-packages on xenial. 9+ years old, zero comments, no labels, no maintainer response. Xenial is EOL and unity8-session is no longer relevant to modern snapcraft. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
98
Complexity:
35
Confidence:
90
Support Request:
75
|
close stale | Launchpad snap build silently excludes webbrowser-app from stage-packages despite explicit listing. Issue is over 9 years old with no maintainer response or activity. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
98
Complexity:
40
Confidence:
95
Support Request:
60
|
close stale | Snap build on Launchpad silently excludes webbrowser-app from stage-packages despite explicit listing. Issue is over 9 years old with no maintainer response or comments. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
98
Complexity:
30
Confidence:
90
Support Request:
20
|
close stale | Report about webbrowser-app being silently excluded from stage-packages during Launchpad snap builds. Issue is extremely old, inactive, and references obsolete Ubuntu Xenial environment. |
Update history
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Related work
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Related To:
snapcraft (launchpad)#1885074
(confidence 65%)
Still-open2022 report of stage-packages being inconsistently honoured (empty snap with :arm64 stage-packages), same class of silent package-resolution failure
Related issues
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