#1145002 pykdtree: please drop the python3-mypy build-dependency

#1145002#5
Date:
2026-08-21 11:06:54 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Running mypy as a linter on source package is brittle and will lead
to FTBFS the day the wing change.

"test_mypy" has already been disabled;
please also drop the python3-mypy build-dependency altogether.

Greetings

Alexandre



tchet@quieter:/tmp/pykdtree-1.4.3+ds$ grep mypy -r
debian/rules:export PYBUILD_TEST_ARGS=--pyargs -k "not test_mypy" ${PYBUILD_NAME}
debian/control:               python3-mypy <!nocheck>,
debian/changelog:    - Skip test_mypy. No feature is broken.
pykdtree/test_stub.py:def test_mypy(capsys: CaptureFixture[str]) -> None:
pykdtree/test_stub.py:    Run mypy stub tests for pykdtree.
pykdtree/test_stub.py:    from mypy import stubtest