snapcraft help” only command summary
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Current evaluation
Request for concise `snapcraft help` output was closed without implementation or explanation; no resolving PR or commit was recorded.
Resolution: closed stale
Reason: The issue was closed with no comments, linked fix, or commit after years of inactivity, indicating the request was abandoned.
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Issue body
Estimate: 4 days
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | Request for concise `snapcraft help` output was closed without implementation or explanation; no resolving PR or commit was recorded. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | canonical/snapcraft#1701 was closed without a fix or comments; the request to show only command summaries was abandoned. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Requesting snapcraft help to only display command summaries was closed without resolution or comments. The feature appears abandoned or superseded, with no implementation applied. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Requesting snapcraft help to display only the command summary was closed without resolution. The task was abandoned before implementation, with no comments or implementation details recorded. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | A request to add a command summary for snapcraft help was closed without implementation or discussion. No comments were posted, indicating the task was abandoned after years of inactivity. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed without discussion or resolution. The request to limit snapcraft help to a command summary was abandoned or superseded by updated CLI help formatting. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #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. | |
| #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. | |
| #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. | |
| #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. | |
| #1591011 snapcraft-parser help doesn't explain what the command does | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Fixed by snapcore/snapcraft#986 in commit b4e53f81e, which added useful command descriptions to snapcraft-parser help. | |
| #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). | |
| #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. | |
| #1990549 snapcraft isn't context aware in displaying help text | snapcraft (launchpad) | open | Requests base/context-aware `snapcraft --help`; concrete --verbosity gap for core20 was unified in 8.11 (PRs #5646/#5680) and core20 dropped in 9.0, but general context-aware help remains planned. | |
| #1834871 snapcraft help doesn't show --shell-before, or --shell, or --destructive-mode options | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without a help fix after a maintainer said command-less snapcraft was deprecated. PR #6074 removed that default command, but #6178 reverted the removal, leaving the mismatch unresolved. | |
| #1582506 --help needs some love | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Resolved by snapcore/snapcraft#1307 (commit d34dc16af), replacing docopt with Click and adding clearer per-subcommand help and option summaries. |