“snapcraft help” parity with --help
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Current evaluation
Fixed by merged PR #1789 (commit e66b29d84), aligning “snapcraft help” with --help and exposing topic and plugin help.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: PR #1789 was merged as commit e66b29d84, implementing help-command parity and support for topic and plugin help.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
Estimate: 2 days
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Fixed by merged PR #1789 (commit e66b29d84), aligning “snapcraft help” with --help and exposing topic and plugin help. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Fixed by merged PR #1789 (commit e66b29d84), making snapcraft help match --help and exposing topic and plugin help. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Fixed by merged PR #1789 (commit e66b29d84), which made “snapcraft help” match --help and exposed topic and plugin help. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed superseded | Parity work moved from canonical/snapcraft#1698 to Launchpad bug #1698116; no resolving PR or commit was recorded in GitHub. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed and superseded by Launchpad bug 1698116. The parity request for snapcraft help and --help was migrated to the external tracker for resolution. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed and superseded by Launchpad bug #1698116. The parity request for snapcraft help and --help was tracked externally rather than implemented or merged. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Parity between "snapcraft help" and "--help" was closed and superseded by migration to the upstream Launchpad tracker (LP: #1698116). No direct fix was implemented in this repository. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed. The request to align snapcraft help with --help was superseded by Launchpad bug #1698116. |
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Related work
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Likely Fixed By:
canonical/snapcraft#1789
(confidence 99%)
The merged PR contains commit e66b29d84 and directly implements the requested help behavior.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1789 cli: improve the help command | snapcraft | merged | Merged PR #1789 in commit e66b29d84, giving snapcraft help parity with --help and exposing topic and plugin help; it resolved snapcraft#1698. | |
| #1698116 snapcraft help claims to have help for topics, but doesn't | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Merged PR #1789 in commit e66b29d84 improved `snapcraft help` so its available topics can be discovered. | |
| #32 Add help subcommand | snapcraft | closed | Implemented snapcraft help in commit 3c3cbcf84; the maintainer confirmed topic and plugin help worked as expected before closure. | |
| #1510683 Add help subcommand | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Help subcommand with topic and plugin support added in snapcraft (commit 1d4f90583 "Add help", plus follow-ups on snapcraft/help.py such as 0b91f34fb fixing plugin listing). Confirmed by elopio and closed by sergiusens as released in snapcraft 0.4. | |
| #1986645 Some snapcraft 7.x commands have irrelevant "help" info | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Fixed in Snapcraft 8 by command-group help refactoring merged in canonical/snapcraft#4934 (commit 6a388877f). | |
| #1845 cli: implement help <command> | snapcraft | merged | PR #1845 (commit cf20b3593) by sergiusens merged command-specific help support, adding `snapcraft help <command>` to the CLI and closing feature request #1699. | |
| #1699 snapcraft <help> command | snapcraft | closed | Feature request by maintainer sergiusens to add a `snapcraft help <command>` sub-command. Resolved by merged PR #1845, commit cf20b3593 ("cli: implement help <command> (#1845)"), which added command-specific help support. | |
| #1701 snapcraft help” only command summary | snapcraft | closed | Request for concise `snapcraft help` output was closed without implementation or explanation; no resolving PR or commit was recorded. | |
| #5169 snapcraft help fails on many commands | snapcraft | closed | Fixed by merged PR #5178 (commit f97d032bf), adding missing help text for positional args; maintainer closed the issue noting the fix ships in snapcraft 8.5.1. |