diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3e2f2a8..f370085 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,9 @@
 *.lock
 target
+
+# Local snapcraft builds
+.craft
+parts
+prim
+stage
+*.snap
diff --git a/snap/snapcraft.yaml b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
index 530791f..88063cb 100644
--- a/snap/snapcraft.yaml
+++ b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
@@ -2,12 +2,16 @@ name: pkh
 base: core24
 summary: pkh is a packaging helper for Debian/Ubuntu packages
 description: |
-  pkh aims at wrapping the different debian tools and workflows 
-  into one tool, that would have the same interface for everything, 
+  pkh aims at wrapping the different debian tools and workflows
+  into one tool, that would have the same interface for everything,
   while being smarter at integrating all workflows.
+
+  This snap uses classic confinement and carries the packaging
+  toolchain it drives (dpkg-dev, git, mmdebstrap, lintian, quilt, ...)
+  so it behaves the same on any Debian/Ubuntu host.
 adopt-info: pkh-part
 
-confinement: devmode
+confinement: classic
 
 apps:
     pkh:
@@ -19,24 +23,86 @@ parts:
     source: .
     override-pull: |
       craftctl default
-      craftctl set version=$(git rev-parse --short=11 HEAD)
-      craftctl set grade="devel"
+      # Release metadata comes from the crate, not the git state: a build
+      # of any commit must produce the version the crate declares.
+      craftctl set version="$(awk -F'"' '/^version =/{print $2; exit}' Cargo.toml)"
+      craftctl set grade="stable"
     build-packages:
       - build-essential
+      - file
+      - patchelf
       - pkg-config
       - libssl-dev
       - libgpg-error-dev
       - libgpgme-dev
+    # Host-side tools pkh execs directly. Tools that only run *inside*
+    # the build chroot (dose-builddebcheck, dpkg-cross) are provisioned
+    # there by pkh itself and must not be staged; likewise qemu-user-static
+    # is host binfmt configuration, not a bundled file.
+    #
+    # The apt and dpkg state-owning tools are deliberately excluded below:
+    # they must be the host's (classic mode makes them visible), since a
+    # core24 apt/dpkg managing a newer host's package database is exactly
+    # the version skew classic snaps must avoid. The source-package tools
+    # (dpkg-buildpackage, dpkg-source, ...) are bundled instead.
     stage-packages:
       - libgpgme11t64
       - git
       - curl
+      - gnupg
+      - gpgv
+      - dpkg-dev
+      - quilt
       - pristine-tar
       - mmdebstrap
+      - lintian
+      - fakeroot
       - util-linux
-      - dpkg-dev
+      # mount/umount moved to their own package (split from util-linux)
+      - mount
+      - schroot
+      - openssh-client
+      - tar
+      - xz-utils
+      - bzip2
     stage:
-    - -usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuio.so.74.2
-    - -usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicutest.so.74.2
-    - -usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicutu.so.74.2
-    - -usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicui18n.so.74.2
+    - -usr/bin/apt
+    - -usr/bin/apt-cache
+    - -usr/bin/apt-cdrom
+    - -usr/bin/apt-config
+    - -usr/bin/apt-get
+    - -usr/bin/apt-key
+    - -usr/bin/apt-mark
+    - -usr/lib/*/libapt-*
+    - -usr/lib/*/libicuio*
+    - -usr/lib/*/libicutest*
+    - -usr/lib/*/libicutu*
+    - -usr/lib/*/libicui18n*
+    # update-alternatives does not run at staging time: expose the sysv
+    # fakeroot under the plain name dpkg-buildpackage and pkh exec.
+    override-prime: |
+      craftctl default
+      ln -sfn fakeroot-sysv "${CRAFT_PRIME}/usr/bin/fakeroot"
+      # Classic-confined ELFs default to the host loader, which pins the
+      # snap to hosts shipping at least the build environment's glibc,
+      # and cannot see the libraries deduplicated against the base.
+      # Point every bundled ELF at the core24 loader and give it an
+      # rpath resolving base libraries from the mounted base and
+      # snap-local libraries from $ORIGIN — the classic linter's
+      # guidance, and what Canonical's own classic snaps do. DT_RPATH
+      # (--force-rpath) is required over the default DT_RUNPATH: the
+      # host ld.so.cache would otherwise resolve sonames to host
+      # libraries first, mixing host libm/libresolv with base libc.
+      # DT_RPATH also propagates transitively, covering dependencies of
+      # dependencies (libgpgme -> libassuan). Host tools spawned later
+      # (host apt-get, ...) run with a pristine environment since no
+      # LD_LIBRARY_PATH is exported.
+      find "${CRAFT_PRIME}" -type f -exec sh -c '
+        for f do
+          [ "$(od -An -N4 -tx1 "$f" | tr -d " \n")" = "7f454c46" ] || continue
+          patchelf --set-interpreter \
+            /snap/core24/current/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 "$f" 2>/dev/null || true
+          patchelf --force-rpath --set-rpath \
+            "/snap/core24/current/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/snap/core24/current/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:\$ORIGIN:\$ORIGIN/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:\$ORIGIN/../usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" \
+            "$f" 2>/dev/null || true
+        done' sh {} +