can't cleanbuild snapcraft itself
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Current evaluation
Fresh testing confirmed Snapcraft could build itself successfully; the report was closed after the suspected interim fix was verified.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: The maintainer could not reproduce the failure and suspected it had already been fixed; the reporter then confirmed that a new test build worked. No resolving PR or commit was linked.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
I tried doing a snapcraft cleanbuild of snapcraft and it failed, seems there's build-packages missing.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/24236038/
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Fresh testing confirmed Snapcraft could build itself successfully; the report was closed after the suspected interim fix was verified. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Snapcraft could clean-build itself again by September 2017; the reporter confirmed an intervening fix, though no specific PR or commit was identified. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Snapcraft could cleanbuild itself again by September 2017; the reporter confirmed an intervening fix, though no resolving PR or commit was identified. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | Closed without a documented fix after years of inactivity; missing build-packages prevented Snapcraft from cleanbuilding itself, but no resolving PR or commit was identified. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Snapcraft cleanbuild failure due to missing build-packages was closed without comments or resolution. The report remains unfixed and appears abandoned. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution or comments, the report of a failed snapcraft cleanbuild due to missing build-packages was abandoned. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution. The cleanbuild failure caused by missing build-packages was not addressed, indicating the report was abandoned. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed without resolution. The report of missing build-packages during snapcraft cleanbuild received no comments or follow-up, indicating the issue was abandoned. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
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| #2044389 snapcraft clean failed but exit 0 | snapcraft (launchpad) | open | Snapcraft 7.5.3 reports a missing build environment during clean but exits 0; a maintainer confirmed the bug and agreed it should fail, with no fix recorded. | |
| #1697979 snapcraft fails on initial cleanbuild probe | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed as obsolete: cleanbuild was decommissioned, and standard Snapcraft builds now transparently use a clean build environment. | |
| #1570706 Snapcraft cleanbuild command doesn't work | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Fixed by merged canonical/snapcraft PR #458 (f78b1e3a3), which corrected Cleanbuilder constructor arguments so snapcraft cleanbuild could initialize its container. | |
| #1789206 cannot rebuild snapcraft | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Snapcraft’s own snapcraft.yaml was updated with build-caching support, enabling it to rebuild itself; resolving PR snapcore/snapcraft#2223 was linked. | |
| #1609803 snapcraft cleanbuild --no-clean-up | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Cleanbuild debugging landed in snapcore/snapcraft PR #740 (commit a24083e75); follow-up PR #1404 made --debug enter a shell when builds fail. | |
| #1593409 snapcraft cleanbuild 500 internal server error | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Cleanbuild recovered after the reporter disabled IPv6 and used NAT in LXD; no Snapcraft code fix was identified. | |
| #1808800 snapcraft clean does not work inside snapcraft --debug | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | The managed-host failure in snapcraft clean inside snapcraft --debug was already fixed in an earlier release; maintainer confirmation was added on 2020-08-24. | |
| #1666735 snapcraft cleanbuild does not work with lxd installed via snap | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Fixed by merged canonical/snapcraft#1199 (commit 417989880), making cleanbuild LXD detection packaging-independent instead of relying on apt package metadata. | |
| #1746381 snapcraft cleanbuild shouldn't always delete container at end | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | No fix was made: maintainers confirmed cleanbuild containers were disposable, recommended SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS, and left the request for default failure shells unimplemented. | |
| #1746359 snapcraft cleanbuild --debug should provide guidance on build failure | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Superseded by Snapcraft 3.x base-based build environments, which replaced the legacy cleanbuild --debug container workflow. |