On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 04:04:36PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > Hi, > > nose [1] is a testing framework for Python, which is dead and unmaintained > since 2015 [2][3]. > > The former maintainer of nose recommends projects using nose to switch to > 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. > > nose has a Python 2 code base and it is difficult to keep it in working state > for new Python versions. It will probably become impossible after Python 3.13, > where lib2to3 will be removed [8]. > > In Debian sid, we still have 389 packages which either build-depend on nose or > use it in autopkgtests. I propose to file bugs for them asking to switch to a > supported alternative. A dd-list is attached.
Thanks to everyone who replied! MBF is now done and bugs can be seen here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=python-modules-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=nose-rm -- Dmitry Shachnev
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