Pytest 8

Summary

Update to a new upstream release of pytest that is not completely compatible with previous releases. Pytest 8 is a major upstream release removing a lot of deprecated functions and introducing breaking changes.

Owner

Name: Tomáš Hrnčiar
Name: Miro Hrončok
Email: python-maint@redhat.com

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora Linux 41
Last updated: 2024-04-22
Announced
Discussion Thread
FESCo issue: #3195
Tracker bug: #2276439
Release notes tracker:

Detailed Description

Pytest is a popular Python framework for writing tests. The 8th major release brings various improvements. The most notable enhancements are:

The diffs that pytest prints when an assertion fails were improved.
Added the new verbosity_assertions configuration option for fine-grained control of failed assertions verbosity.
Additional support for exception groups and __notes__
custom directory collectors
“new-style” hook wrappers are now used internally

Breaking changes:

PytestRemovedIn8Warning deprecation warnings are now errors by default
Several breaking changes to pytest’s collection phase, particularly around how filesystem directories and Python packages are collected, fixing deficiencies and allowing for cleanups and improvements to pytest’s internals.
Sanitized the handling of the default parameter when defining configuration options
pytest’s setup.py file is removed
warns() now re-emits unmatched warnings when the context closes – previously it would consume all warnings, hiding those that were not matched by the function
The internal FixtureManager.getfixtureclosure method has changed. Plugins which use this method or which subclass FixtureManager and overwrite that method will need to adapt to the change.

List of packages that will likely fail to build.

Maintainers by package:

cffconvert iztokf
cloud-init dustymabe gholms larsks mhayden otubo
copr-backend frostyx msuchy praiskup
copr-frontend frostyx msuchy praiskup
copr-rpmbuild frostyx praiskup
fedmsg kevin
git-up ekohl
h5py orion stevetraylen terjeros
httpie churchyard codeblock mikelo2
ipython churchyard cstratak ignatenkobrain lbalhar mrunge salimma tomspur
jrnl music
mu churchyard kushal
pg_activity mikelo2
python-APScheduler mmassari zuul
python-aiohttp-cors kwizart
python-alembic frantisekz
python-ase besser82 marcindulak
python-astropy orion sergiopr
python-atpublic abompard jonathanspw
python-attrs churchyard lbalhar
python-aws-sam-translator music
python-bluepyopt ankursinha
python-boto3 cstratak fale limb
python-chalice dcavalca
python-contextily qulogic
python-cssutils kevin
python-dbus-next alebastr
python-dirhash cottsay
python-django-extensions aekoroglu ngompa salimma
python-earthpy iztokf
python-ecdsa brouhaha jonathanspw orion
python-efel ankursinha
python-fastjsonschema thrnciar
python-fiona qulogic
python-fslpy ankursinha
python-geopandas qulogic
python-geoplot qulogic
python-glob2 jujens
python-graphviz eclipseo mairacanal
python-hid-parser rathann
python-ipykernel churchyard pcpa
python-ipywidgets lbalhar
python-josepy nb
python-kombu fab frantisekz mrunge ngompa pingou pjp
python-lexicon mhayden pghmcfc
python-libpysal qulogic
python-mapclassify qulogic
python-marshmallow-enum fab
python-mathics-pygments dcavalca
python-mirrors-countme asaleh nphilipp
python-mne ankursinha ignatenkobrain
python-mplcursors qulogic
python-networkx jjames plautrba
python-nibabel ankursinha ignatenkobrain
python-nikola jamatos maxamillion
python-notebook churchyard ksurma lbalhar
python-oci mhayden
python-openapi-core mattia music
python-opentelemetry mhayden music pwouters rominf
python-papermill ankursinha
python-paramiko ignatenkobrain limb orion pghmcfc sgallagh
python-parsel jonathanspw
python-pem mhayden
python-pint jcapitao lzachar mrunge
python-prettytable apevec clalance
python-pydantic gotmax23 music nikromen
python-pymeeus fab
python-pynwb lbazan
python-pysaml2 apevec
python-pytest-cases zbyszek
python-pytest-forked swt2c
python-pytest-lazy-fixture ankursinha mikelo2
python-pytest-mpi orion
python-pytest-postgresql mikelo2
python-pytest-relaxed jkucera
python-pytest-xdist swt2c
python-qudida thunderbirdtr
python-rasterio qulogic
python-remoto branto fsimonce jcaratzas ktdreyer
python-requests abompard cstratak jcline sagarun
python-requests-credssp fab
python-responses athoscr fschwarz salimma
python-sentry-sdk edward-evans-aiven elisre italomga nickfarrell pwouters rominf rommell
python-service-identity carlwgeorge eclipseo
python-sybil fab
python-textual jonathanspw
python-tpm2-pytss jjelen
python-trustme carlwgeorge jcaratzas
python-uranium churchyard gferon
python-uvicorn carlwgeorge
python-vine frantisekz mrunge ngompa pingou
python-virtualenv churchyard cstratak lbalhar mhayden mrunge orion
python-werkzeug abompard codeblock frantisekz hguemar tdawson
python-willow lyessaadi
rpy alexlan jamatos
scipy cstratak mmuzila nforro orion psimovec tomspur ttomecek
thefuck principis
yt-dlp gotmax23 mikelo2
yubikey-manager gbcox orion

Packages by maintainer:

abompard python-atpublic python-requests python-werkzeug
aekoroglu python-django-extensions
alebastr python-dbus-next
alexlan rpy
ankursinha python-bluepyopt python-efel python-fslpy python-mne python-nibabel python-papermill python-pytest-lazy-fixture
apevec python-prettytable python-pysaml2
asaleh python-mirrors-countme
athoscr python-responses
besser82 python-ase
branto python-remoto
brouhaha python-ecdsa
carlwgeorge python-service-identity python-trustme python-uvicorn
churchyard httpie ipython mu python-attrs python-ipykernel python-notebook python-uranium python-virtualenv
clalance python-prettytable
codeblock httpie python-werkzeug
cottsay python-dirhash
cstratak ipython python-boto3 python-requests python-virtualenv scipy
dcavalca python-chalice python-mathics-pygments
dustymabe cloud-init
eclipseo python-graphviz python-service-identity
edward-evans-aiven python-sentry-sdk
ekohl git-up
elisre python-sentry-sdk
fab python-kombu python-marshmallow-enum python-pymeeus python-requests-credssp python-sybil
fale python-boto3
frantisekz python-alembic python-kombu python-vine python-werkzeug
frostyx copr-backend copr-frontend copr-rpmbuild
fschwarz python-responses
fsimonce python-remoto
gbcox yubikey-manager
gferon python-uranium
gholms cloud-init
gotmax23 python-pydantic yt-dlp
hguemar python-werkzeug
ignatenkobrain ipython python-mne python-nibabel python-paramiko
italomga python-sentry-sdk
iztokf cffconvert python-earthpy
jamatos python-nikola rpy
jcapitao python-pint
jcaratzas python-remoto python-trustme
jcline python-requests
jjames python-networkx
jjelen python-tpm2-pytss
jkucera python-pytest-relaxed
jonathanspw python-atpublic python-ecdsa python-parsel python-textual
jujens python-glob2
kevin fedmsg python-cssutils
ksurma python-notebook
ktdreyer python-remoto
kushal mu
kwizart python-aiohttp-cors
larsks cloud-init
lbalhar ipython python-attrs python-ipywidgets python-notebook python-virtualenv
lbazan python-pynwb
limb python-boto3 python-paramiko
lyessaadi python-willow
lzachar python-pint
mairacanal python-graphviz
marcindulak python-ase
mattia python-openapi-core
maxamillion python-nikola
mhayden cloud-init python-lexicon python-oci python-opentelemetry python-pem python-virtualenv
mikelo2 httpie pg_activity python-pytest-lazy-fixture python-pytest-postgresql yt-dlp
mmassari python-APScheduler
mmuzila scipy
mrunge ipython python-kombu python-pint python-vine python-virtualenv
msuchy copr-backend copr-frontend
music jrnl python-aws-sam-translator python-openapi-core python-opentelemetry python-pydantic
nb python-josepy
nforro scipy
ngompa python-django-extensions python-kombu python-vine
nickfarrell python-sentry-sdk
nikromen python-pydantic
nphilipp python-mirrors-countme
orion h5py python-astropy python-ecdsa python-paramiko python-pytest-mpi python-virtualenv scipy yubikey-manager
otubo cloud-init
pcpa python-ipykernel
pghmcfc python-lexicon python-paramiko
pingou python-kombu python-vine
pjp python-kombu
plautrba python-networkx
praiskup copr-backend copr-frontend copr-rpmbuild
principis thefuck
psimovec scipy
pwouters python-opentelemetry python-sentry-sdk
qulogic python-contextily python-fiona python-geopandas python-geoplot python-libpysal python-mapclassify python-mplcursors python-rasterio
rathann python-hid-parser
rominf python-opentelemetry python-sentry-sdk
rommell python-sentry-sdk
sagarun python-requests
salimma ipython python-django-extensions python-responses
sergiopr python-astropy
sgallagh python-paramiko
stevetraylen h5py
swt2c python-pytest-forked python-pytest-xdist
tdawson python-werkzeug
terjeros h5py
thrnciar python-fastjsonschema
thunderbirdtr python-qudida
tomspur ipython scipy
ttomecek scipy
zbyszek python-pytest-cases
zuul python-APScheduler

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora offers cutting-edge technologies for Python and pytest is one of the most important Python packages. By doing this update we bring users the latest features that pytest offers and also we enable Fedora 41 to receive future updates as well.

Scope

Proposal owners: update pytest to 8.x.x, provide help

Other developers: report problems to the upstream and backport patch to the affected packages. The impact can be tested using copr repository where Pytest 8.x.x has been built. Alternatively you can open a PR to distgit and see the result in CORP - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/thrnciar/pytest/builds/?dirname=pytest:pr:<your PR number>

Release engineering: #Releng issue number

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Alignment with Objectives:

Upgrade/compatibility impact

There is a clean upgrade path from current version to pytest 8.x.x. Fedora users using RPM-packaged Pytest will use pytest 8.x.x by default.

How To Test

Find the package you want to update in this copr repository and check the build logs to determine the fail cause.
Work with the upstream to resolve the issue.
When updating the package, you can test it using the same copr repository where the latest version of pytest has been built.
Let us know if something doesn't work as it should.

User Experience

Regular distro users shouldn't notice any change in pytest behaviour, except for packages using removed functions. Such packages will fail and should be fixed by their maintainers.

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) Proposal owners will introduce a pytest7 compatibility package.
Contingency deadline: beta freeze
Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Documentation

Pytest changelog

This page is the documentation.

Release Notes

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