Updated: python 3.9/3.12 packages

[Marco Atzeri]

On 17/01/2026 15:21, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
> On 27/12/2025 16:42, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce wrote:
>> New release for
>>
> [...]
>>
>> python312-pytest-9.0.2-1
> 
> Thanks for all these updates!
> 
> One thing I notice with python-pytest is that /usr/bin/pytest now names 
> python3.12 in it's #! line.

packing mistake.
python312-pytest-9.0.2-2 corrects it but you will need to reinstall
python39-pytest-8.3.4-1 for the correct /usr/bin/pytest

> 
> This can be confusing if you have python3 set up to point to python3.9, 
> because you can have a situation where something runs OK, but fails 
> under pytest, because you haven't also installed the equivalent 
> python312 modules it needs.
> 
> Maybe pytest (and py.test) should be managed by alternatives (or perhaps 
> not installed, so /usr/bin/pytest-3.nn is always used)?

Theorically yes, but not really a priority


> It also seems like python-pytest3nn should now depend on python3nn- 
> pygments?
> 
>> $ pytest
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/bin/pytest", line 3, in <module>
>>     from pytest import console_main
>>   File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pytest/__init__.py", line 8, 
>> in <module>
>>     from _pytest._code import ExceptionInfo
>>   File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/_pytest/_code/__init__.py", 
>> line 5, in <module>
>>     from .code import Code
>>   File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/_pytest/_code/code.py", line 
>> 43, in <module>
>>     from _pytest._io import TerminalWriter
>>   File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/_pytest/_io/__init__.py", 
>> line 3, in <module>
>>     from .terminalwriter import get_terminal_width
>>   File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/_pytest/_io/ 
>> terminalwriter.py", line 13, in <module>
>>     import pygments
>> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pygments'

  python312-pytest requires: python312 python312-iniconfig 
python312-pluggy python312-pygments python312-packaging python312-toml

Regards
Marco