extension: kde-neon fails on arm64
Metadata
Current evaluation
Closed as expected dependency behavior: the KDE Neon extension required upstream KDE Frameworks snaps that lacked arm64 builds at the time.
Resolution: closed not a bug
Reason: Maintainer Sergiusens closed it on 2020-08-26, explaining that extensions are bound to base/content-snap availability and that missing arm64 KDE snaps were an upstream packaging issue, not a Snapcraft error.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
No scores available.
Issue body
Trying to use the snapcraft kde-neon extension fails on arm64:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/snap/qt1$ snap try prime
error: cannot perform the following tasks:
- Ensure prerequisites for "test-qt" are available (cannot install prerequisite "kde-frameworks-5-core18": no snap revision available as specified)
And indeed, the kde-frameworks-5-core18 snap is not avail on arm64 (preinstalled server bionic for pi3):
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/snap/qt1$ snap info kde-frameworks-5-core18
error: no snap found for "kde-frameworks-5-core18"
But it is available, for example on classic xenial amd64:
$ snap info kde-frameworks-5-core18
name: kde-frameworks-5-core18
summary: KDE Frameworks 5
publisher: KDE✓
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/kde-frameworks-5-core18
contact: https://www.kde.org/support/
license: unset
description: |
KDE Frameworks are addons and useful extensions to Qt
snap-id: GeIofQKAwadB4OEM8lOzdSMAc56sCNdL
tracking: latest/stable
refresh-date: 40 days ago, at 10:39 EDT
channels:
latest/stable: 5.61.0 2019-08-27 (32) 273MB -
latest/candidate: 5.67.0 2020-02-17 (35) 303MB -
latest/beta: ↑
latest/edge: 5.54.0+p18.04+git20190115.0202 2019-01-16 (25) 250MB -
installed: 5.61.0 (32) 273MB -
I'd expect an extension to snapcraft would work on the supported/reference platforms.
(https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/blob/master/snapcraft/internal/project_loader/_extensions/kde_neon.py)
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed not a bug | Closed as expected dependency behavior: the KDE Neon extension required upstream KDE Frameworks snaps that lacked arm64 builds at the time. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed not a bug | Closed as an upstream content-snap availability limitation tracked by KDE/neon bug #449001, rather than a Snapcraft extension bug. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | Abandoned after inactivity: arm64 lacked builds for the KDE Frameworks 5 core18 dependency required by Snapcraft’s kde-neon extension. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Abandoned due to inactivity. The kde-neon extension fails on arm64 because the kde-frameworks-5-core18 snap lacks arm64 builds, causing snapcraft to fail during prerequisite installation. | |
| qwen/qwen3.8-27b |
Impact:
15
Quick Win:
10
Staleness:
95
Complexity:
35
Confidence:
75
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | kde-neon extension fails on arm64 because the kde-frameworks-5-core18 content snap has no arm64 revision. 6+ years old, zero maintainer interaction, and the core18 base is EOL, so the issue is outdated. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
95
Complexity:
20
Confidence:
90
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | kde-neon snapcraft extension fails on arm64 due to missing kde-frameworks-5-core18 snap. Unlabelled, no maintainer comments, inactive for over 3 years. core18 is deprecated. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
95
Complexity:
20
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | kde-neon extension fails on arm64 due to missing kde-frameworks-5-core18 snap. Issue is over 6 years old, has no maintainer engagement, and references the EOL core18 base. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
95
Complexity:
50
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | kde-neon snapcraft extension fails on arm64 due to missing kde-frameworks-5-core18 snap. Reported 6 years ago with no maintainer response. |
Update history
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Related work
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Caused By:
neon#449001
(confidence 92%)
A later comment identified this KDE bug as the upstream arm64 availability blocker and reported it as resolved.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #5128 KDE Neon 6 broken on arm64 | snapcraft | open | Reported arm64 kde-neon-6 failure caused by an incomplete kf6-core22 content snap; the issue remains unlabelled and untriaged despite a later related upstream fix. | |
| #37 Building snaps with `kde-neon` extension is not working | snapcraft-rocks | open | Snapcraft Rocks images resolve extension sources to the wrong path, breaking kde-neon and GNOME extension builds; the issue remains unresolved. |