Bug 671480 (no-tox-dep)

Summary:	[TRACKER] packages wrongly depending on dev-python/tox
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Virgil Dupras (RETIRED) <vdupras>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Python Gentoo Team <python>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mgorny, python
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	671482, 671484, 672746, 685012
Bug Blocks:	682392

Description Virgil Dupras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-11-19 01:36:25 UTC

Although many python packages use tox for testing, we shouldn't use tox in the context of Gentoo testing[1] (and by the way, we shouldn't run coverage or flake8 either!).

This tracks packages wrongly depending on dev-python/tox for testing.

If your package depends on tox but don't ever call "tox" in the ebuild, then you can probably just remove the dependency.

If it calls tox (sometimes wrapped in a Makefile), then you should look in upstream's "tox.ini" file and run a command similar to the command described in there, and then remove dependency on tox.

[1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python/Tests#Do_not_ever_use_tox.21

Comment 1 John Helmert III archtester

2022-08-25 04:07:02 UTC

Dead tracker?