thanks for the feedback. Just as reference: The full test suite (depending on availability of the extra data files) runs in ~5-10minutes in the Azure hosted Linux CI environment. There are indeed some tests which are running a bit longer. I'll consider switching to pytest in the future.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM Drew Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > Source: xrayutilities > Followup-For: Bug #1120471 > X-Debbugs-Cc: Dominik Kriegner <[email protected]> > Control: tags -1 ftbfs > > Final comment: > > I see the tests have been written with unittest rather than pytest, > with case identity managed via unittest's subTest(). unittest doesn't > support the parametrize fixture that pytest has, and it might be > disruptive to have just this one test use pytest instead of unittest. > > So, I think the debian build can just wait the 4 or so minutes for the > 1.7.12 test examples to pass. No big drama. > > Drew >

