Bug#844387: ITP: pytest-expect -- py.test plugin to store test expectations

[Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org>

* Package name    : pytest-expect
  Version         : 1.1.0
  Upstream Author : Geoffrey Sneddon <geoffers@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/gsnedders/pytest-expect
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : py.test plugin to store test expectations

A py.test plugin that stores test expectations by saving the set of failing
tests, allowing them to be marked as xfail when running them in future. The
tests expectations are stored such that they can be distributed alongside the
tests. However, note that test expectations can only be reliably shared between
Python 2 and Python 3 if they only use ASCII characters in their node ids: this
likely isn’t a limitation if tests are using the normal Python format, as
Python 2 only allows ASCII characters in identifiers.


This package is a dependency for running the tests for the currently existing
Debian package python-html5lib. As html5lib is a build-dep for python-pip,
getting this fixed is pretty important.

This should be managed through the Debian Python modules team.