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

[Free Ekanayaka]

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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