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

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?

This makes sense.  I looked over the patches and they look good to me.

We have a lot of Python packages that really should be updated.  We need
some Python champions to take care of continued updates there.

~~ Ricardo