Unpin pytest

[rominf]

Problem Statement

As a Fedora packager I would like to have pytest to not have pin < 7.0.0, so that python-sentry-sdk could be tested in Fedora without workarounds. Also, pytest==7.0.0 was released on Feb 4, 2022.

All actual Fedora releases contain pytest>7.0.0 and installing an older version from PyPI during package build for testing is not possible. Thus, I unpinned it. Since some tests fail with pytest>7.0.0 because of the issue in pytest-forked, I had to find a way how to fix them. Luckily, thanks to this investigation there is a workaround: reorder the tests so that non-forked tests are not last in the file, see patch.

Solution Brainstorm

Of course, the best solution would be to fix the issue in pytest-forked, however it looks like a hard problem.

My suggestions:

• Unpin pytest.
• Reorder the tests.
• Write a note in CONTRIBUTING.md about this quirk. Another option is to add a linter that would inform about the need to reorder tests.

[szokeasaurusrex]

@rominf Thank you for opening this issue, and for linking the investigation! We will place this issue on our internal backlog. However, you are also welcome to open a PR, if you would like – we might be able to implement your suggested changes more quickly that way.

[anthonyryan1]

Gentoo is going to remove support for sentry-python on November 17th if we don't have a release with pytest 8 support before that date.

Reference: https://bugs.gentoo.org/937896