Possibly obsolete requirements (fedora packaging POV)

[AloisMahdal]

Context

I'm trying to update python-jira in Fedora, where it's been stuck on 2.* for some time.

I'm following Fedora Python Packaging Guidelines and trying to make use of Fedora's official macros --- that way I don't have to specify each requirement manually; the macros will rely on meta-data provided with the package.

Problem

There is a bunch of dependencies that are not officially packaged in Fedora, and likely won't be in a foreseeable future. At the same time, most of these don't seem to be realy used neither by jira nor by
test suite -- judging from the fact that I could remove them and still get tox running.

Here's a summary of what I got away with removing:

• from setup.cfg:

  • yanc,
  • requests_jwt,
  • pytest-instafail,
  • requires.io,
  • xmlrunner,
  • filemagic,

• tox.ini:

  • tox-extra,
  • tox-pyenv,

(I also had to remove git clean command from tox.ini as the distributed tarball is not a git repo.)

Question

Some of the requirements will likely be platform-specific (eg. filemagic on windows) but is it possible that some of them are actually obsolete?

[AloisMahdal]

What I'm trying to do is run build time tests (as part of %check RPM scriptlet) but now I'm not sure if there are any: tox already crashed due to make_local_jira_user.py, which requires local jira instance.

Are therea any unit tests that I could run build-time? There is no 'tests' sub-directory in the pypi tarball, and I guess I don't understand tox enough to be sure of the scope of what tox.ini is really trying to run.

(So this discussion could be actually moot.)