Pytest-subprocess looks interesting, I'd probably myself have done the mocks directly using pytest-mock but it's good to know this exists.
On Mon, 23 Oct 2023, 12:49 Jonathan Kamens, <j...@kamens.us> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm writing to ask for your assistance in getting pytest-subprocess > packaged into Debian: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1053360 > > The use case here is that I've taken over maintenance of apt-listchanges > and added among other things a unit-test suite, and I want to make the > unit-tests cover as much of the code as possible, and to do that I need to > be able to mock out subprocess calls which apt-listchanges does quite a lot > of in its work. > > I am happy to do most of the work if someone on this list is willing to > mentor me, since I've never packages a Python module for Debian before and > don't want to screw something up / spin my wheels learning lessons the team > already has institutional knowledge of. I imagine that packaging a simple > package like this one is probably quick and straightforward for folks who > have done it before, so perhaps it would be easier for one of y'all to do > it than to guide me through the process, but I leave that choice to your > discretion. ;-) > > Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide. > > Regards, > > Jonathan Kamens > > >
