commands: help for all legacy commands
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Current evaluation
Merged PR #3735, adding help passthrough for all legacy Snapcraft commands; merged as commit 8f8b2df42.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: PR #3735 was merged into the 7.0 branch as merge commit 8f8b2df42, completing CRAFT-986 through CRAFT-991 by routing legacy-command help to the legacy implementation.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
Passthrough to legacy implementation.
Signed-off-by: Sergio Schvezov <sergio.schvezov@canonical.com>
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CRAFT-986
CRAFT-987
CRAFT-988
CRAFT-989
CRAFT-991
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged PR #3735, adding help passthrough for all legacy Snapcraft commands; merged as commit 8f8b2df42. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged #3735 via 8f8b2df42, adding help for all legacy commands through passthrough to the legacy implementation, covering CRAFT-986 through CRAFT-991. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Merged implementation adding help text for all legacy commands via passthrough. Approved, passed CI, and resolves CRAFT-986 through CRAFT-991. Minor coverage decrease noted but accepted. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Merged into snapcraft/7.0, the change adds help text for all legacy commands via passthrough to legacy implementations. Approved despite a minor overall coverage decrease reported by Codecov. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #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. | |
| #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. | |
| #5682 Remove legacy help and version code | snapcraft | closed | Merged PR #5777 removed the unused snapcraft_legacy help/version commands and their tests; the legacy package was later removed wholesale for Snapcraft 9. | |
| #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. | |
| #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. | |
| #3682 cli: fix help command legacy fallback | snapcraft | merged | Merged #3682 as commit 468051ea5, handling craft-cli's ProvideHelpException so legacy help prints the same message as --help and exits successfully. | |
| #5423 Add `--verbosity`, `--verbose`, and `--quiet` for legacy commands in Snapcraft 8 | snapcraft | closed | Legacy command verbosity support merged in PR #5646 (3aeded2fa), with non-lifecycle coverage completed by PR #5680 (4a7663069). | |
| #5777 chore(legacy-cli): remove unused help and version commands | snapcraft | closed | Merged #5777, removing unused legacy CLI help/version commands after confirming snapcraft_legacy was not exposed in official releases; it combined #5731 and #5773. |