snapcraft clean <part> doesn't remove the bin/ directory

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli]

snapcraft clean <part> doesn't remove the bin/ directory from this part.

$ snapcraft clean gnu-bash
$ ls parts/gnu-bash/
bin

-> I would completely remove parts/gnu-bash directory and its content, as if the part wasn't pulled or anything.
Indeed, it would be weird to have a potentially empty parts/gnu-bash/ directory, especially if we rename one part.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

Setting priority to high because this is part of the tour.

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

Can you confirm this is still the case in master?

Seems with the pkg-config rework it should not be a problem anymore

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

This is fixed in master, not yet released to xenial:

elopio@remote-devel:~/workspace/canonical/snapcraft/tour/00-SNAPCRAFT/02-parts⟫ ls parts/gnu-bash/
build install src state ubuntu
elopio@remote-devel:~/workspace/canonical/snapcraft/tour/00-SNAPCRAFT/02-parts⟫ ./../../../bin/snapcraft clean gnu-bash
Cleaning priming area for gnu-bash
Cleaning staging area for gnu-bash
Cleaning build for gnu-bash
Cleaning pulled source for gnu-bash
elopio@remote-devel:~/workspace/canonical/snapcraft/tour/00-SNAPCRAFT/02-parts⟫ ls parts/gnu-bash/
ls: cannot access 'parts/gnu-bash/': No such file or directory

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

The tour in snapcraft.io is already updated. All good.