# HG changeset patch
# User pacien <pacien.trangirard@pacien.net>
# Date 1680862304 -7200
# Node ID 787e7caf887af1a0b6dae0bd1319a8c535ac9ead
# Parent  2231f7d8a60266bb6907b1708400c970ed799017
run-tests: remove obsolete coverage check and packaging import (issue6805)

This removes an obsolete `coverage` version check (version from a decade ago).

This also conveniently removes the dependency over `packaging.version`,
which requires some additional installation since Python 3.10.

diff -r 2231f7d8a602 -r 787e7caf887a tests/run-tests.py
--- a/tests/run-tests.py	Wed Apr 05 11:58:25 2023 +0200
+++ b/tests/run-tests.py	Fri Apr 07 12:11:44 2023 +0200
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@
 import json
 import multiprocessing
 import os
-import packaging.version as version
 import platform
 import queue
 import random
@@ -794,9 +793,7 @@
         try:
             import coverage
 
-            covver = version.Version(coverage.__version__)
-            if covver < version.Version("3.3"):
-                parser.error('coverage options require coverage 3.3 or later')
+            coverage.__version__  # silence unused import warning
         except ImportError:
             parser.error('coverage options now require the coverage package')