Re: py2removal: drop python-pytest by not running tests for python2 packages
On 4/13/20 11:22 AM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:05:13PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> On Sunday, April 12, 2020 9:56:01 PM EDT Sandro Tosi wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> python-pytest is blocking 18 packages from removal, most of them would
>>> be leaves once python-pytest is gone.
>>>
>>> so i was playing with the idea of tackling python-pytest removal by
>>> updating all its rdeps and not run unittests for the python2 binary
>>> (so dropping pytest and the other b-d* only used for tests).
>>>
>>> I know it's suboptimal (some python2 packages can still see updates
>>> until we're ready to drop them and running tests can still have
>>> value), but i think the cost/benefit ratio points towards removing
>>> python-pytest soon rather than wait.
>>>
>>> There are only 25 packages that would need updating, and most of them
>>> are in DPMT/PAPT.
>>
>> Go for it.
>
> +1 from me too.
+1
Please publish a list here, so we can share the workload.
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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