Bug#1082705: python-inline-snapshot: documentation includes inline error messages instead of output

[Chris Lamb]

Source: python-inline-snapshot
Version: 0.13.1-1
Severity: wishlist
User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: buildpath
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that
python-inline-snapshot could not be built reproducibly.

This is because the documentation embeds a number of error messages
that in turn include nondeterminstic contents:

    > pytest test_something.py --inline-snapshot=create,report
    ERROR: usage: pytest [options] [file_or_dir] [file_or_dir] [...]
    pytest: error: unrecognized arguments: --inline-snapshot=create,report
      inifile: None
      rootdir: /tmp/tmp.0ENzKZTyyS
    

There are also other errors that don't include nondeterminstic content,
hence this more general bug:

  > pytest test_something.py --inline-snapshot=short-report
  environment: line 10: python: command not found


It appears that the documentation cannot find the pytest plugin within
its own build directory, which may be because the setuptools entry
point isn't available [1] as it isn't installed... but I don't know
how to fix that.

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
 [1] 
https://docs.pytest.org/en/7.1.x/how-to/writing_plugins.html#setuptools-entry-points


Regards,

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