fix: update test packages to fix tests on macos-latest

[huxuan]

• I have added a news fragment under changelog.d/ (if the patch affects the end users)

Summary of changes

Fix #1372

1. Update some packages to newer version to install on macos-latest successfully.
2. Update tests package lists
3. Update pylint related tests due to metadata change

Test plan

Tested by running

# command(s) to exercise these changes
nox -s tests

[huxuan]

emmm.... Seems updating some packages will not fix the problem, they introduce more failures.

any ideas?

[dukecat0]

Just fixed it by deleting the caches. 👍

[huxuan]

Just fixed it by deleting the caches. 👍

Hi @dukecat0, thanks for the help!

Could you explain a little bit why deleting the caches will fix the tests? Actually, I spend almost the whole afternoon trying to find out why the tests keep failing. :-(

[dukecat0]

Could you explain a little bit why deleting the caches will fix the tests? Actually, I spend almost the whole afternoon trying to find out why the tests keep failing. :-(

Cached packages are stored at .pipx_tests/package_cache/3.12 and they are reused by Github Actions on every run.

pipx/.github/workflows/tests.yml

Lines 38 to 42 in 5d610e5

	- name: Persistent .pipx_tests/package_cache
	uses: actions/cache@v4
	with:
	path: ${{ github.workspace }}/.pipx_tests/package_cache/${{ matrix.python-version }}
	key: pipx-tests-package-cache-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}

Since package versions are updated here, those cached packages should be removed so that https://github.com/pypa/pipx/blob/main/scripts/update_package_cache.py will download and use the new ones.

Actually the reason that I had a thought of removing cache files is I ran tests on a clean copy of pipx (without cache files) and everything worked fine, so that reminded me.

However, I think we can make some improvements to avoid this in the future:

• Add a note on this file: https://github.com/pypa/pipx/blob/main/testdata/tests_packages/README.md that we should remove the cache
  Or (even better):
• Make this update package cache script remove the correct packages. It removes dependencies of some packages and causes them to fail to be installed. (Though I need to investigate more on this.)

[huxuan]

@dukecat0 Thanks so much for the detailed explanation!

Actually, I do not have a macos so I thought it might be some kind of compatibility issue. You save my day!

[dukecat0]

Thanks!