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Re: Proposed MBF: packages still using nose



On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 04:04:36PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> nose [1] is a testing framework for Python, which is dead and unmaintained
> since 2015 [2][3].
>
> The former maintainer of nose recommends projects using nose to switch to
> nose2 [4], pytest [5] or unittest from Python standard library [6]. There is
> a script called nose2pytest [7] which can assist with migrating from nose to
> pytest.
>
> nose has a Python 2 code base and it is difficult to keep it in working state
> for new Python versions. It will probably become impossible after Python 3.13,
> where lib2to3 will be removed [8].
>
> In Debian sid, we still have 389 packages which either build-depend on nose or
> use it in autopkgtests. I propose to file bugs for them asking to switch to a
> supported alternative. A dd-list is attached.

Thanks to everyone who replied!

MBF is now done and bugs can be seen here:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=nose-rm

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Dmitry Shachnev

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