ansible-lint reports The 'changed' test expects a dictionary for facts set in different playbook file

[mprasil]

Summary

ansible-lint reports failure with fact not being dictionary when the fact is set in some other file:

jinja[invalid]: The 'changed' test expects a dictionary
debugmsg.yaml:4 Task/Handler: Debug message

Issue Type

• Bug Report

OS / ENVIRONMENT

ansible-lint --version
ansible-lint 6.14.1 using ansible 2.14.3

• ansible installation method: pip
• ansible-lint installation method: pip

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Playbooks:

# playbook.yaml
---
- name: Reproduce bug
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
  - name: Maybe change something
    ansible.builtin.command:
      cmd: date
    register: date_cmd

  - ansible.builtin.include_tasks: debugmsg.yaml

# debugmsg.yaml
---
- name: Debug message
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "Is changed:{{ date_cmd is changed }}"

Then run lint command:

ansible-lint playbook.yaml

Which reports following failure:

jinja[invalid]: The 'changed' test expects a dictionary
debugmsg.yaml:4 Task/Handler: Debug message

(Some other failures are also reported due to the example being intentionally minimal here)

If the two tasks were in the same playbook, like bellow, ansible-lint does not report this failure:

---
- name: Reproduce bug
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
  - name: Maybe change something
    ansible.builtin.command:
      cmd: date
    register: date_cmd

  - name: Debug message
    ansible.builtin.debug:
      msg: "Is changed:{{ date_cmd is changed }}"

Desired Behavior

In both scenarios, ansible-lint should not report failure with the fact not being dictionary.

Actual Behavior

When the debug task is in separate file, ansible-lint fails with:

jinja[invalid]: The 'changed' test expects a dictionary
debugmsg.yaml:4 Task/Handler: Debug message