Dear Maintainer,

The 0004-plugins-mp-set-context-to-fork-for-Python-3.14-mp-AP.patch patch
added in 0.15.1-2 is wrong and breaks certain use cases.

As discussed in the upstream PR, multiprocessing.set_start_method() is wrong
and breaks various use cases as it can only be called once per program (it
throws a RuntimeError if called more than once).

https://github.com/nose-devs/nose2/pull/644

As a minimum it should handle that exception and/or only call it if needed
(E.G.  get_start_method() not returning 'fork', but ideally it should not
affect global settings as explained in the PR discussion.

An example of a nose2 user broken by this:
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/3d2141bceefda32bef06ddda594eaf8665913276

Hi Maintainer,

I have prepared MRs for upgrading nose2 to the new upstream version 0.16.0.

- https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/nose2/-/merge_requests/1
- https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-rich-argparse/-/merge_requests/2
- https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-rich-argparse/-/merge_requests/3

Shanavas M

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We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
nose2, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1129350@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> (supplier of updated nose2 package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:58:55 +0200
Source: nose2
Architecture: source
Version: 0.16.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Python Team <team+python@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org>
Closes: 1048280 1129350
Changes:
 nose2 (0.16.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * Add debian/salsa-ci.yml
   * Rewrite d/watch in v5 format
   * Rewrite d/rules with newer & shorter syntax
   * Clean better (Closes: #1048280)
   * Implement nocheck & nodoc profiles
   * Remove unused license definitions for Expat.
   * Update standards version to 4.7.4, no changes needed.
 .
   [ Shanavas M ]
   * New upstream version 0.16.0 (Closes: #1129350)
   * Remove obsolete patches
   * Use local python3 doc for intersphinx
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