Patchelf test branch
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Current evaluation
Patchelf test-branch PR #2530 was closed unmerged after years without review or CI; PR #2531 shipped the alternative locally patched Patchelf 0.9 approach in 44be372e3.
Resolution: closed stale
Reason: The draft received no reviews, CI results, comments, or merge and was eventually closed unmerged. PR #2531 was instead merged as commit 44be372e3, restoring locally patched Patchelf 0.9 after Patchelf 0.10 architecture reliability issues.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
- [ ] Have you followed the [guidelines for contributing](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)?
- [ ] Have you signed the [CLA](http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/contributors/)?
- [ ] Have you successfully run `./runtests.sh static`?
- [ ] Have you successfully run `./runtests.sh tests/unit`?
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Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
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| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | Patchelf test-branch PR #2530 was closed unmerged after years without review or CI; PR #2531 shipped the alternative locally patched Patchelf 0.9 approach in 44be372e3. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | Patchelf test branch was abandoned unmerged after 2,732 days, with no review, CI results, comments, or recorded closing rationale. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | PatchELF test-branch draft appears abandoned: closed after 2,724 days with no recorded review, CI results, merge, or maintainer explanation. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without merging. Submitted as a maintainer test branch, it received zero reviews or comments and was likely abandoned. No changes were integrated into the codebase. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed without merging. The Patchelf test branch received no comments or activity and was abandoned as an experimental branch. |
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Related work
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Superseded By:
snapcraft#2531
(confidence 90%)
Merged commit 44be372e3 delivered the shipped local-patch approach after the test branch was abandoned.
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Related To:
snapcraft#2519
(confidence 78%)
Merged commit e39d2404c introduced Patchelf 0.10, whose cross-architecture problems led to the later 0.9 reversion.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #2531 snap: revert to patchelf 0.9 with local patches | snapcraft | merged | Merged PR #2531 as commit 44be372e3, reverting from Patchelf 0.10 to locally patched 0.9 after architecture tests exposed unreliable binaries. | |
| #5135 fix(test): add patchelf to dev dependencies for testing | snapcraft | closed | Closed unmerged as obsolete after #5225 superseded the proposed patchelf test dependency; the Starflow migration merged in commit 7a1a94e46. | |
| #6455 fix(patchelf): use the build-for architecture's dynamic linker | snapcraft | closed | PR #6455 was closed unmerged; its patchelf cross-compilation linker fix was not delivered, and #5836 remains open. | |
| #6511 build(deps): update patchelf to 0.19 | snapcraft | open | Updates bundled patchelf from 0.9 to 0.19 to fix ELF corruption bugs with Qt 6 plugins. Blocked by external PR canonical/patchelf#4. Has 1 unresolved review comment and one failing CI check (OSV-scanner). | |
| #1888 elf: make patchelf a dependency | snapcraft | merged | Merged PR #1888 via commit 7c947f5ec, moving Patchelf out of project_loader build tools and into the deb and snap delivery mechanisms. | |
| #6509 Update patchelf | snapcraft | open | Enhancement to update bundled patchelf from 0.9 to 0.19.2, with existing patches mapped to upstream fixes and a completed test plan. |