Hi, Here are some notes about running the sqlalchemy test suite on jessie. The document leaves a lot of the setup up to the user. I still have some failures with MySQL and Unicode, even when configuring everything in utf8...
I'm aggregating test suite notes at https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/TestSuites # Base doc in README.unittests.rst apt install python-pytest python-mock python-setuptools python-dev python-mysqldb python-psycopg2 # python-pysqlite1.1 python-pysqlite2 # -> replaced by built-in sqlite3 module # sqlite tests apt install python-nose ./sqla_nose.py -v --write-profiles # Ran 6054 tests in 123.179s # OK (SKIP=198) # sqlite tests python setup.py test # 5939 passed, 727 skipped in 157.86 seconds # more DBs apt install mysql-server sed -i -e 's/\[mysqld\]/[mysqld]\ndefault_storage_engine=MyISAM/' /etc/mysql/my.cnf # -> documented but doesn't change test results #sed -i -e 's/\[mysqld\]/[mysqld]\ncharacter_set_server=utf8/' /etc/mysql/my.cnf # -> doesn't change test results (still 4 unicode-related failures) service mysql restart mysql -e "DROP DATABASE test;" mysql -e "DROP DATABASE test_schema;" mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE test;" mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE test_schema;" mysql -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON test.* TO 'scott'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'tiger';" mysql -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON test_schema.* TO 'scott'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'tiger';" apt install postgresql echo 'max_prepared_transactions = 100' >> /etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf sed -i -e 's/^lc_.*/#&/' /etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf service postgresql restart echo -e 'tiger\ntiger' | su - postgres -c 'createuser scott -l -P' su - postgres -c 'dropdb test' su - postgres -c 'createdb test' #su - postgres -c "psql -c 'GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE test to scott;' su - postgres -c "psql -c 'CREATE SCHEMA test_schema AUTHORIZATION scott;' test" su - postgres -c "psql -c 'CREATE SCHEMA test_schema_2 AUTHORIZATION scott;' test" su - postgres -c 'psql -c "ALTER DATABASE test SET default_text_search_config = '\''pg_catalog.english'\'';"' py.test --db sqlite --db postgresql --db mysql # Note: apparently one needs to drop/recreate the pgsql DBs due to some test leftovers # MySQL: py.test --db mysql # 4 failed, 5967 passed, 695 skipped in 288.81 seconds # PostgreSQL: py.test --db postgresql # 6354 passed, 312 skipped in 333.16 seconds # All: py.test --db sqlite --db postgresql --db mysql # 4 failed, 8904 passed, 341 skipped in 312.66 seconds