Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org Control: affects -1 src:python-testing.mysqld Control: retitle -1 ROM; abandoned upstream, apparently broken with MariaDB and current MySQL, no reverse-dependencies
On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 09:26:07PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 09:52:02PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > > 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. > > I had a go at fixing this, but it's hiding some more serious issues. > > The tests were disabled in response to https://bugs.debian.org/978259, > so in principle we could just drop the build-dependency. However, I'm > pretty sure that it's more a matter of the _package_ not working rather > than the _tests_ not working. (I'm always very suspicious of "disable > the tests" commits for this kind of reason!) I don't want to fix this > up if it doesn't actually work. > > The code you need to initialize a database so that a test suite can > connect to it differs between MySQL versions and between MySQL and > MariaDB, and as far as I can see testing.mysqld only has what you need > for oldish versions of MySQL and not either newer versions of MySQL or > MariaDB; you can see evidence of this sort of thing in pytest-mysql, and > I remember adding similar logic to Storm's test suite based on > pytest-mysql a while back. > > testing.mysqld hasn't had any upstream commits since 2018. There's a > stalled PR for MySQL 8 support > (https://github.com/tk0miya/testing.mysqld/pull/9), but on its own I > think that would make things worse for MariaDB since (at least according > to pytest-mysql) you have to keep using > mysql_install_db/mariadb-install-db for MariaDB. After hacking in > something like what pytest-mysql does, I found I still needed to add > --auth-root-authentication-method=normal to the mysql_install_db call > (or possibly some different approach would be better - see > https://github.com/tk0miya/testing.mysqld/issues/3). Even after that, > there's still a test failure in one error case that I didn't get to the > bottom of. > > Having said all this, I wondered whether it was worth the effort to fix > it, so I looked for reverse-(build-)dependencies and found that there > currently aren't any. Thus I think we should just remove this from > Debian. > > I've CCed people who've ever uploaded this package and might potentially > be interested. If I don't hear objections in a week, I'll reassign this > to ftp.debian.org for removal. I'll take silence as consent, and am reassigning this to ftp.debian.org for removal. Thanks, -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
