tests: add the home plug to the plainbox snap
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Current evaluation
Merged changes adding the home plug to the plainbox snap. This resolves permission errors for tests writing to XDG_CACHE_HOME in $HOME/autopkgtest_tmp during autopkgtests. Approved by two reviewers and passed CI.
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Issue body
On integration tests we set XDG_CACHE_HOME to a temporary directory in TMPDIR.
In autopkgtests we are now setting TMPDIR to $HOME/autopkgtest_tmp.
The plainbox test tries to write to XDG_CACHE_HOME, which used to be somewhere
it could write. Now that it is in home, to properly work the snap requires the
home plug.
LP: #1732076
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Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Merged changes adding the home plug to the plainbox snap. This resolves permission errors for tests writing to XDG_CACHE_HOME in $HOME/autopkgtest_tmp during autopkgtests. Approved by two reviewers and passed CI. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Merged. Added the home plug to the plainbox snap to resolve write permission errors when tests target XDG_CACHE_HOME in the updated $HOME/autopkgtest_tmp directory. Resolves LP: #1732076. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Merged. Added the home plug to the plainbox snap to resolve autopkgtest failures. Changing TMPDIR to $HOME/autopkgtest_tmp requires home directory write access for XDG_CACHE_HOME, resolving LP: #1732076. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1889 tests: remove plainbox part from plugin tests | snapcraft | merged | Merged changes removing the plainbox component from plugin tests. This resolves integration test failures caused by the plainbox library being integrated into the checkbox application, rendering the separate plainbox part obsolete for snaps. | |
| #1603 tests: add /snap/bin to PATH in autopkgtests | snapcraft | merged | Merged to add /snap/bin to the autopkgtests PATH, fixing binary lookup failures. Approved, passed CI, and depends on PR #1595. | |
| #2321 tests: add spread suite for plainbox plugin (#2317) | snapcraft | merged | Merged after approval and passing CI. The pull request adds a Spread test suite for the plainbox plugin, pins the checkbox-ng package, and removes a misplaced test from the snapcraft test suite. |