[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#812648: astroquery: FTBFS - AttributeError: 'Config' object has no attribute '_conftest'

[Vincent Prat]

Hi,

I managed to reproduce the bug.

According to my investigations, it is caused by a change in pytest 
(fails with version 2.8).
The current version of astropy available in Debian does not take this 
change into account (see upstream discussion at 
https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/4256) and thus make astroquery 
tests fail.

I managed to get rid of the bug by modifying the offending line (164) in 
/usr/lib/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/astropy/tests/pytest_plugins.py:

-    module = self.config._conftest.importconftest(self.fspath)
+    module = self.config.pluginmanager._importconftest(self.fspath)

as it is in the file doctest.py of python-pytest (line 172).

Best regards,
Vincent