Hi Dmitriy,

We don't depend on nose these days. We dropped that dependency
upstream a while back in favor of pytest.

The debian packaging probably needs to drop the dependency.

Thanks!


On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 11:41 AM Dmitry Shachnev <mity...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Source: git-cola
> Version: 3.12.0-1
> User: python-modules-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: nose-rm
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Your package still uses nose [1], which is an obsolete testing framework for
> Python, dead and unmaintained since 2015 [2][3].
>
> If you received this bug report, it means that your package either has a
> build-dependency on python3-nose or uses that package in debian/tests/control.
> If that is not the case, please reply and CC me explicitly.
>
> Please port your package to one of the alternatives: 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.
>
> This mass bug filing was discussed on debian-devel in [8].
>
> [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://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/08/msg00184.html
>
> --
> Dmitry Shachnev
>


--
David

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