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lxd: add an --image argument to cleanbuild

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Project
snapcraft
Number
#1769
Type
pull request
State
closed
Author
mwhudson
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Current evaluation

Rejected and closed. Maintainers abandoned container-based builds in favor of VMs, rendering the LXD image argument obsolete. The PR was not merged.

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Issue body

A replacement for #1557

Evaluation history

Date Model Scores Action Summary
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b — — Rejected and closed. Maintainers abandoned container-based builds in favor of VMs, rendering the LXD image argument obsolete. The PR was not merged.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 — — Adding an --image argument to cleanbuild was closed and abandoned. Maintainers rejected the change after deciding to move away from containers as the build execution mechanism, rendering the feature obsolete.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 — — Closed and abandoned. The project shifted away from container-based builds, making the --image argument for cleanbuild obsolete. The feature was superseded by a move toward VM-based build environments.

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