Better documentation for stage-packages and build-packages
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Current evaluation
Resolved by merged canonical/snapcraft#913 (commit 2875ecb56), which updated plugin help to document stage-packages and build-packages, including ELF dependency crawling and omitted cases.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: The issue was closed after canonical/snapcraft#913 was merged. Commit 2875ecb56 updated the stage-packages and build-packages help text with the missing documentation.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
stage-packages and build-packages are not explained in `snapcraft help plugins`
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Resolved by merged canonical/snapcraft#913 (commit 2875ecb56), which updated plugin help to document stage-packages and build-packages, including ELF dependency crawling and omitted cases. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Documentation was expanded in merged PR canonical/snapcraft#913 (commit 2875ecb56) to explain stage-packages and build-packages in plugin help. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged PR canonical/snapcraft#913 (commit 2875ecb56) expanded plugin-help documentation for stage-packages and build-packages, including ELF crawling and other cases. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution. The documentation request for stage-packages and build-packages was abandoned due to zero comments and no follow-up activity. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Request to document stage-packages and build-packages in snapcraft help plugins closed without resolution or comments, indicating abandonment. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution. The request to document stage-packages and build-packages in snapcraft help plugins was abandoned, likely superseded by later documentation updates. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed without comments or explicit resolution. The documentation request for stage-packages and build-packages in snapcraft help plugins was abandoned. |
Update history
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Related work
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Likely Fixed By:
canonical/snapcraft#913
(confidence 100%)
Merged PR directly updating plugin help for stage-packages and build-packages; resolving commit 2875ecb56.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #913 help: update stage-packages and build-packages | snapcraft | merged | Merged PR #913 in commit 2875ecb56, updating stage-packages and build-packages help to document ELF dependency crawling and previously omitted cases. | |
| #1157 repo: support versioned stage-packages | snapcraft | merged | Merged support for versioned stage-packages in canonical/snapcraft#1157 via commit ef4076821, resolving Launchpad bug #1666656. | |
| #76 packages: normalize unpacked stage packages (CRAFT-33) | craft-parts | merged | Merged PR #76 (commit 486bc6b9) added craft_parts/packages/normalize.py, porting Snapcraft package normalization: shebang rewriting, relative symlinks, suid/gid cleanup, and pkg-config/xml2/xslt path fixes. | |
| #1611827 dump plugin with stage-packages fails | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Resolved by merged snapcore/snapcraft PR #729, commit 26ae9a507: the dump plugin no longer removes the install directory, fixing stage-packages builds. |