On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 09:01:37PM -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > > I think this page includes debci results for experimental: > > > > > > https://release.debian.org/britney/pseudo-excuses-experimental.html > > > > > > It shows what would happen when migrating experimental to unstable. > > > > Oh wow, thanks! That's perfect. So we can upload the new pytest to > > experimental and see what happens... > > please be aware that that is a very partial view, in particular only > showing reverse dependencies with (meaningful) autopkgtests, which > means there could be hidden gigantic breakages not detected by that > page which will wreak havoc in unstable. > > I would consider pytest a "core" python package, and so a complete > rdeps rebuild is appropriate, i suggest having a look at > https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/collab-qa-tools/-/blob/master/modes/numpy-exp > and then contacting Lucas to get access to the AWS rebuild machinery.
Hi Sandro, Ah, that's a very good point. I was half-aware of it, but didn't really think it through. > > Anyone willing to go for it? > > I thought you were volunteering for it? :) jokes aside, i think > preparing the new pytest upstream release for experimental may be the > "easiest" part of this ordeal. I guess it will depend on how much breakage it causes; the deprecations and breaking changes listed at https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html see somewhat "obscure", but who knows how much they're used in Debian packages?! I wish I could help, but I only have a couple of hours per week for Debian stuff, so this is beyond my capacity, unfortunately :-( Best wishes, Julian
