[Python-modules-team] Bug#933914: python3-pytest: pytest v4 breaks existing tests

[Drew Parsons]

Package: python3-pytest
Version: 4.6.4-1
Severity: serious
Justification: breaks autopkgtest tests
Control: affects -1 + src:apipkg src:betamax src:ccdproc src:chardet
Control: affects -1 + src:dask src:django-axes src:doit src:drms
Control: affects -1 + src:fiat src:mpi4py src:pandas src:pygalmesh
Control: affects -1 + src:pyjwt src:pytest-sugar src:pytest-xdist
Control: affects -1 + src:pytest-xvfb src:python-dbfread
Control: affects -1 + src:python-dugong src:python-graphviz
Control: affects -1 + src:python-hypothesis src:python-parameterized
Control: affects -1 + src:python-transliterate src:setuptools-scm
Control: affects -1 + src:spyder-line-profiler src:spyder-reports
Control: affects -1 + src:spyder-unittest src:sudsy 


python3-pytest v4 has changed the pytest API, causing many existing
tests to fail.

This upgrade should be treated as a Transition, uploading the package to
experimental first.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages python3-pytest depends on:
ii  python3                     3.7.3-1
ii  python3-atomicwrites        1.1.5-2
ii  python3-attr                18.2.0-1
ii  python3-importlib-metadata  0.18-2
ii  python3-more-itertools      4.2.0-1
ii  python3-packaging           19.0-1
ii  python3-pkg-resources       41.0.1-1
ii  python3-pluggy              0.12.0-1
ii  python3-py                  1.8.0-1
ii  python3-six                 1.12.0-1
ii  python3-wcwidth             0.1.7+dfsg1-6

python3-pytest recommends no packages.

python3-pytest suggests no packages.

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