Comment # 10 on bug 1141376 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Jonathan Kang from comment #9)
> (In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #6)
> > 
> > Nope. I think that directory is managed by libzypp-plugin-appdata +
> > appstream-glib, which I'm not involved in.
> 
> Oh, btw, it seems that the permission issue of /var/cache/app-info/* is also
> preventing "appstreamcli status" to show correct summary:

Confirmed. I can reproduce the issue by just installing AppStream,
libzypp-plugin-appdata in a tw container and running appstreamcli status.