Re: Proposed MBF: packages still using nose
Dear Dmitry,
Il 21/08/22 15:04, Dmitry Shachnev ha scritto:
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.
[1]:https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nose
[2]:https://github.com/nose-devs/nose/commit/0f40fa995384afad
[3]:https://pypi.org/project/nose/#history
[4]:https://docs.nose2.io/en/latest/
[5]:https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/
[6]:https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html
[7]:https://github.com/pytest-dev/nose2pytest
[8]:https://docs.python.org/3/library/2to3.html#module-lib2to3
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Dmitry Shachnev
nose.dd-list.txt
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Antonio Valentino<antonio.valentino@tiscali.it>
pysph (U)
python-hdf4 (U)
I have just uploaded a new version of the python-hdf4 package in which
the dependency on nose has bee removed (replaced by pytest).
Regarding pysph, the package in unstable is already OK.
It should be able to migrate once #1010961 and #1015009 (removal of
binary packages form unstable) are resolved.
Apparently it takes some time but I hope that pysph will be able to
migrate soon.
kind regards
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Antonio Valentino
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