[Python-modules-team] Bug#997758: nose: FTBFS: There is a syntax error in your configuration file: invalid syntax (conf.py, line 220)

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi Thomas and all!

On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 11:53:19PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm referenced for 55 packages. Please don't force me to do this right
> away, that's too much work. I very much would prefer if we could have a
> smoother transition.
>
> Note that it's possible that for many packages mentioned, only removing
> the dependency should be enough. Still, that's some work to do... :/
>
> Other alternative would be: help with NMU fixes (or I can add any of you
> in the OpenStack team if you need...).

Thanks to Jakub Wilk, we have a patch which fixes the FTBFS and I will apply
it for the time being.

However, it would be still nice to remove nose at some future point, maybe
before Bookworm release. Last release was in June 2015 (six years ago!) and
the project is dead and unmaintained. As you can see, it was not even ported
to Python 3 properly.

There is absolutely no rush, and I am going to follow the usual procedure:
discuss on debian-devel, do MBF with severity: normal, then bump severities
to important and finally to RC. There will be a few months before each stage.

I'm impressed by the number of packages you have depending on nose, but if
they all come from the same upstream, maybe you can convince this upstream
to not rely on dead software.

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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