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From: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>,
	Tanguy Le Carrour <tanguy@bioneland.org>
Cc: Guix <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: gnu: python-pytest: Update to 5.2.1.
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:47:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhhrtqey.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191023080047.GD20347@E5400>

Hi Efraim,

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

[...]

> I assume python-importlib-metadata only needs python-pytest for running
> the test suite. We have a couple of python libraries that have
> '-bootstrap' added to the end. You could try making a
> python-importlib-metadata-bootstrap which doesn't use python-pytest and
> doesn't run the test suite, and use that as an input for python-pytest.
>
> Or if that's not the circle that's created then you'll have to find
> where it is. Same advice though, create another package with less
> functionality or without tests and use that to break the cycle.

This is an interesting advice, AFAIU it deserves a specific section in
the Cookbook but I'm not able to elaborate and clearly document how to
"break the cycle": please Efraim are you willing to elaborate and send a
patch for this?

[...]

Thanks! Gio'

-- 
Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-23 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-23  7:22 gnu: python-pytest: Update to 5.2.1 Tanguy Le Carrour
2019-10-23  8:00 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-10-23 15:47   ` Giovanni Biscuolo [this message]
2019-10-23 17:47 ` Marius Bakke
2019-10-25  0:42   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-10-25  6:49     ` Tanguy Le Carrour
2020-01-07 22:39 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-01-08  7:48   ` Tanguy Le Carrour

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