Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: > We package version 2.7.3 of pytest, which was released in September > 2015. I guess that Python development moves very quickly, because there > are already some packages whose test suites require a newer version of > pytest. > > Notably, the most recent release of Borg, 1.0.8, requires something > called 'tmpdir_factory', which was introduced in pytest 2.8 [0]. You can > see this by building Borg on core-updates, where Python 3.5 makes the > test suite run (it never ran on master with Python 3.4). > > I'd really prefer to run the Borg tests, so I want to add a newer > release of pytest and use it with Borg. > > I've been testing pytest upgrades locally, and there is some breakage, > so I think we should not try to upgrade it for all packages in this > core-updates cycle. Instead, I want to build on Hartmut's > wip-python-build-system to upgrade the core Python packages after this > core-updates cycle. > > WDYT?
This makes sense. I looked over the patches and they look good to me. We have a lot of Python packages that really should be updated. We need some Python champions to take care of continued updates there. ~~ Ricardo
