[U-Boot] [PATCH] test/py: Fix pytest4 deprecation warnings

[Marek Vasut]

On 3/13/19 12:29 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:27:38PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 3/13/19 12:25 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:20:49PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> On 3/13/19 12:19 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 05:08:14AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Fix the following spit from pytest:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> u-boot/test/py/conftest.py:438: RemovedInPytest4Warning: MarkInfo objects are deprecated as they contain merged marks which are hard to deal with correctly.
>>>>>>   Please use node.get_closest_marker(name) or node.iter_markers(name).
>>>>>>   Docs: https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/mark.html#updating-code
>>>>>>     for board in mark.args:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In both cases, the later suggestion is applicable.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas at gmail.com>
>>>>>> Cc: Igor Opaniuk <igor.opaniuk at linaro.org>
>>>>>> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
>>>>>> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>>>>>
>>>>> Deferred, for now we don't support newer pytest than 2.8.7 and you'll
>>>>> need to use virtualenv to set that up if needed.  There is not, AFAICT,
>>>>> a way to support both versions.
>>>>
>>>> That's what's in debian testing though, so maybe we need to support it
>>>> somehow.
>>>
>>> Yes, I'm _very_ frustrated at the speed at which pytest went from "this
>>> is the API" to "this API is deprecated" to "this API doesn't work and
>>> here's the new, incompatible API".  Debian/testing needs to use
>>> virtualenv to setup a python area with older pytest installed, just like
>>> we do in .travis.yml.
>>
>> Can't we rather have people use the new APIs and virtualenv new python?
> 
> Not as easily, no.  Debian/testing may have something much newer but
> Debian/stable doesn't, and I don't know what Ubuntu/18.04 has off-hand
> but it's probably inbetween and so on.

While I'm not a python expert, shouldn't virtualenv help with that ?

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut