Re: pytest 4 and autopkgtest dependency loops

[Graham Inggs <ginggs@debian.org>]

Hi Scott

On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 at 18:01, Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> wrote:
> However, there's one package that seems like it is going to cause a
> problem.  I uploaded pytest-xdist 1.29.0-1, which *requires* pytest 4, so
> pytest-xdist won't migrate to testing until pytest 4 does.  On the other
> hand, pytest 4 won't migrate to testing until all its autopkgtest failures
> (which include pytest-xdist) clear (right?).  So it seems we have a loop
> here.  How do we resolve it?

I believe the solutions is for python-pytest and python3-pytest to add
Breaks: python-pytest-xdist (<< 1.29.0-1~)
and
Breaks: python3-pytest-xdist (<< 1.29.0-1~)
respectively.

Regards
Graham