Bug#1018621: ros-catkin-tools: build-depends on python3-nose or uses it for autopkgtest

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Source: ros-catkin-tools
Version: 0.9.0+ds-3
User: python-modules-team at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: nose-rm

Dear Maintainer,

Your package still uses nose [1], which is an obsolete testing framework for
Python, dead and unmaintained since 2015 [2][3].

If you received this bug report, it means that your package either has a
build-dependency on python3-nose or uses that package in debian/tests/control.
If that is not the case, please reply and CC me explicitly.

Please port your package to one of the alternatives: 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.

This mass bug filing was discussed on debian-devel in [8].

[1]: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nose
[2]: https://github.com/nose-devs/nose/commit/0f40fa995384afad
[3]: https://pypi.org/project/nose/#history
[4]: https://docs.nose2.io/en/latest/
[5]: https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/
[6]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html
[7]: https://github.com/pytest-dev/nose2pytest
[8]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/08/msg00184.html

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Dmitry Shachnev