[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#843037: python-testtools: New upstream 2.2.0 available

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Thomas,

do you have any further take on this? If there's no strong objection I'd
like to move forward.

Cheers

On 3 November 2016 at 21:17, Free Ekanayaka <freee at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> On 3 November 2016 at 20:25, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
>
>> On 11/03/2016 12:08 PM, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>> > Package: python-testtools
>> > Version: 1.8.0-4
>> > Severity: normal
>> >
>> > The 1.8.0 release is over a year old. In the meantime several bug
>> > fixes and improvements have landed upstream and are available in
>> > the 2.2.0 release, so we should upgrade the Debian package.
>> >
>> > If you wish, I volunteer for co-maintainership or even simply an
>> > ad-hoc NMU.
>>
>> I'm not sure if it is such a good idea to upgrade testtools just before
>> the freeze of Stretch. Maybe we'd better upload it to Experimental?
>>
>
> As mentioned, the 2.2.0 release is definitely an improvement over the
> 1.8.0, with bug fixes even. For a stable release like Stretch, I would
> rather prefer to see 2.2.0 in it than 1.8.0.
>
> For example unit tests for 2.2.0 are fully green on Debian/sid, both on
> Python 2 and Python 3, while unit tests for 1.8.0 have several breakages.
>
> See these links to see the bugs that have been address in over a year:
>
> https://launchpad.net/testtools/+milestone/1.9.0
> https://launchpad.net/testtools/trunk/1.8.1
> https://launchpad.net/testtools/trunk/2.0.0
> https://launchpad.net/testtools/trunk/2.1.0
> https://github.com/testing-cabal/testtools/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed
>
> Free
>
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