potiuk opened a new pull request, #43617:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/43617

   The compatibility tests in CI are using providers built as packages from 
sources, so the compatibility tests run there using "providers/tests" work just 
fine, because all providers are installed in the airflow.providers site 
library. However when we are iterating and debugging backwards compatiblity 
provider tests, we should be able to use local provider sources, rather than 
installed packages and we have the possibility of mounting both - providers 
sources and tests to the image.
   
   See `contributing-docs/testing/unit_tests.rst` on how to do it by using 
``--mount-sources providers-and-tests`` flag connected with 
`--use-airflow-version`.
   
   However as of #42505 this has been broken, because currently in main we  
rely on airflow having "pkgutil" namespace package for both - airflow, and 
airflow.providers packages (previous airflow versions had implicit package for 
airflow.providers package) - so providers installed locally cannot be used as 
"another" source of providers.  Previously it was working because both 
"installed" and "sources" `airflow.providers` package were implicit namespace 
packages.
   
   As explained in 
https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/packaging-namespace-packages/#native-namespace-packages
   
   > Every distribution that uses the namespace package must include such
   > an `__init__.py`. If any distribution does not, it will cause the
   > namespace logic to fail and the other sub-packages will not be
   > importable. Any additional code in __init__.py will be inaccessible.
   
   So because old airflow uses implicit provider's packages and main airflow 
from source uses "explicit" provider's package, the only way we can make the 
"source" providers is to mount them or symbolically link them to inside 
installed distribution of airflow package (in site directory) (or dynamically 
remove the __init__.py from provider's source directory.
   
   We cannot mount the provider package sources ot inside the installed airflow 
- because when --use-airflow-version is used, airflow is installed dynamically 
inside the container - after the container is started.
   
   This PR solves the problem by adding an env variable that will make the 
initialization script to remove the installed airflow.providers folder after 
installing airflow and linking the "providers/src/airflow/providers" folder 
there. This has the added benefit that all providers (including the 
preinstalled ones) are used from "main" sources rather than from installed 
packages - which was problematic for the past way of using providers from 
sources - which used the fact that both "airflow.providers" in the site-library 
and the one in sources were implicit namespace packages.
   
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