`httpretty` looks unmaintained

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#230 opened on Oct 2, 2025 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 5/5
Estimated time: Over a week
Newbie friendliness: 30/100

Issue type: Refactor
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: python
Domain: testing

Research direction

The issue names no files or tests; start by locating the httpretty dependency declaration and every use of it in the repository. Compare viable replacements against those usages, then confirm that the dependency no longer builds through the deprecated mechanism and the existing HTTP-related tests still pass.

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Description

As opensafely-core/reports#1014:

Noticed while running just devenv:
DEPRECATION: Building 'httpretty' using the legacy setup.py bdist_wheel mechanism, which will be removed in a future version.
The actual version we have is the latest (1.1.4), but it is from 2021.

So the package:

looks no longer maintained

has quirks that we may be encountering or will encounter, and aren't likely to be fixed

Because of that, it seems sensible to replace it.

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