Idea: pynose as drop-in replacement for nose

[Sandro]

Hi,

While looking into a package upgrade I came across pynose [1]. It 
appears to be a drop-in replacement for nose [2], which has been 
deprecated in Fedora 32 [3].

There are still quite a few packages depending on nose, that have not 
yet moved away from it. The official successor to nose is nose2 [4]. But 
that package does not support all of the behavior of nose.

Therefore, I'm thinking of introducing pynose as a drop in replacement 
of deprecated nose. Pynose uses the same namespace as nose, but provides 
python3dist(pynose). Thus adding Provides: for nose would make it a 
drop-in replacement for packages currently depending on nose.

As a preliminary smoke test I built all packages depending on nose in 
Copr against pynose [5]. Packages failing to build against pynose I also 
built against nose [6]. I haven't checked all packages in detail yet, 
but the amount packages failing appears manageable (17).

Going by [3] I suppose this would also need to go through the changes 
process. If so, I'd be willing to drive that. But I could use some 
help/support since this would be my first change proposal.

In a way this e-mail is kind of an informal general rehearsal.
With that said, please shoot! 🔫

[1] https://github.com/mdmintz/pynose
[2] https://github.com/nose-devs/nose
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateNose
[4] https://github.com/nose-devs/nose2
[5] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/gui1ty/pynose
[6] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/gui1ty/nose

Cheers,

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