According to https://nose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#note-to-users > Nose has been in maintenance mode for the past several years and will likely cease without a new person/team to take over maintainership. New projects should consider using Nose2, py.test, or just plain unittest/unittest2. Moreover, > nose supports python3. Building from source on python3 requires distribute. If you don’t have distribute installed, python3 setup.py install will install it via distribute’s bootstrap script. So, even sources of `nose` are built with `2to3`. Thus, this package should be removed from Sisyphus. Eventually, it will be broken anyway. fix guidelines: - package required `nose` at runtime should be updated/removed or drop this dep - package required `nose` for buildtime tests should be updated/removed or drop this dep/disable tests Current status: runtime reverse deps: 56 buildtime reverse deps: 245
[#325182] DONE (try 2) del=python3-module-nose
