Bug#1018642: spyder-unittest: build-depends on python3-nose or uses it for autopkgtest

[Julian Gilbey]

forwarded 1018642 https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-unittest/issues/178
thanks

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 09:55:09PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> Source: spyder-unittest
> Version: 0.5.0-3
> 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].

This is a plugin for Spyder to support running package tests in other
packages.  It currently supports tests written in pytest or nose, and
the current package requires nose only in its tests.

There seems to be agreement upstream about stopping its nose support
in the next major version (see the request for this from June 2022 at
https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-unittest/issues/178), but there
is no indication of when this might happen.

Best wishes,

   Julian