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-summary: Build and run a Python-based core24 classic snap
-
-# To ensure the patchelf fixes are correct, we run this test on focal systems.
-systems:
-  - ubuntu-20.04*
-
-prepare: |
-  # Clone the snapcraft-docs/python-ctypes-example
-  git clone https://github.com/snapcraft-docs/python-ctypes-example.git
-  cd python-ctypes-example
-  # A known "good" commit from "main" at the time of writing this test
-  git checkout 31939ef68d8c383b9202f2588a704b3271bae009
-
-  # Replace the existing snap command with a call to the provisioned python3
-  sed -i 's|command: bin/test-ctypes.py|command: bin/python3|' snap/snapcraft.yaml
-
-  # Set the base to core24
-  sed -i 's/base: core22/base: core24/' snap/snapcraft.yaml
-  # And the build-base to devel
-  sed -i '1ibuild-base: devel' snap/snapcraft.yaml
-  # And change Python 3.10 to Python 3.12
-  sed -i 's/python3.10/python3.12/' snap/snapcraft.yaml
-
-restore: |
-  cd python-ctypes-example
-  snapcraft clean
-  rm -f ./*.snap
-  cd ..
-  rm -rf python-ctypes-example
-
-execute: |
-  cd python-ctypes-example
-
-  snapcraft pack
-
-  # Install the new snap
-  sudo snap install --classic --dangerous example-python-ctypes*.snap
-
-  # Run the snap's command; success means patchelf correctly linked the Python
-  # interpreter to core24's libc. Failure would output things like:
-  # version `GLIBC_2.35' not found (required by /snap/example-python-ctypes/x1/bin/python3)
-  example-python-ctypes -c "import ctypes; print(ctypes.__file__)" | MATCH "/snap/example-python-ctypes/"