Bug#851324: python-debian: migrate to standard ‘unittest’ for test suite discovery

[Stuart Prescott]

Control: tags -1 - patch

> The test suite does not appear to use any ‘nose’ features that are not
> already in the standard library ‘unittest’ module as of Python 2.7.
> The dependency on ‘nose’ is evidently only to do automatic test suite
> discovery.

More relevant, I think, is that the nose module is essentially unmaintained 
and so it is wortwhile migrating to something that has a future.

> My proposed implementation for this is at
> <URL:https://git.fosscommunity.in/bignose/debian_python-debian/commits/wip/m
> aintenance/unittest>, the ‘wip/maintenance/unittest’ branch.

As already noted on the mailing list, these changes completely break the test 
suite at build time and are additionally buggy in their invocation of the 
autopkgtests (hence removing the "patch" tag). Something similar in nature 
that is tested and works would be quite welcome.

regards
Stuart

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