When using Azure Compute Gallery image as base, using image_id fails but using image_name/image_version works

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I have the following pkr.hcl file:

source "azure-arm" "from-sig" {

  build_resource_group_name = "packer-build"

  shared_image_gallery {
    subscription        = "<subscription-id>"
    resource_group      = "MyImages"
    gallery_name        = "MyGallery"
    image_name          = "pkrgenimg"
    image_version       = "2.2.3"
  }

  shared_image_gallery_destination {
    subscription        = "<subscription-id>"
    resource_group      = "MyImages"
    gallery_name        = "MyGallery"
    image_name          = "pkrgenimg"
    image_version       = "6.4.0"
    target_region {
      name = "northeurope"
    }

    ...
  }

The above works and version 6.4.0 of the image in question is generated successfully from version 2.2.3, as intended. All good.

When I replace image_name and image_version in the shared_image_gallery block with either community_gallery_image_id or direct_shared_gallery_image_id, the image generation fails:

  shared_image_gallery {
    subscription        = "<subscription-id>"
    resource_group      = "MyImages"
    direct_shared_gallery_image_id = "/subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/MyImages/providers/Microsoft.Compute/galleries/MyGallery/images/pkrgenimg/versions/2.2.3"
  }

PowerShell session error:

==> azure-arm.from-sig: ERROR: -> DeploymentFailed : At least one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https://aka.ms/arm-deployment-operations for usage details. ==> azure-arm.from-sig: ERROR: -> BadRequest : Id /subscriptions/\<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/MyImages/providers/Microsoft.Compute/galleries//images/ is not a valid resource reference.

Please note that in the second line of the error above, the Id string after BadRequest is missing components after the galleries part.

If this is not a bug, what is the proper way to use an image_id in a shared_image_gallery block?

And a related question - when the above image build fails, three artifacts are left behind and not cleaned up:

I have to remove them manually.

I am under the impression that Packer is supposed to clean up even in case of an error. Is this really the case?

Thank you.

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