[PATCH 0/2] Add new pytest for special cases

[Leo Famulari]

We package version 2.7.3 of pytest, which was released in September
2015. I guess that Python development moves very quickly, because there
are already some packages whose test suites require a newer version of
pytest.

Notably, the most recent release of Borg, 1.0.8, requires something
called 'tmpdir_factory', which was introduced in pytest 2.8 [0]. You can
see this by building Borg on core-updates, where Python 3.5 makes the
test suite run (it never ran on master with Python 3.4).

I'd really prefer to run the Borg tests, so I want to add a newer
release of pytest and use it with Borg.

I've been testing pytest upgrades locally, and there is some breakage,
so I think we should not try to upgrade it for all packages in this
core-updates cycle. Instead, I want to build on Hartmut's
wip-python-build-system to upgrade the core Python packages after this
core-updates cycle.

WDYT?

[0]
https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst#280

Leo Famulari (2):
  gnu: Add python-pytest-2.9.2.
  gnu: borg: Run the tests with python-pytest-2.9.2.

 gnu/packages/backup.scm |  4 +++-
 gnu/packages/python.scm | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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