We were building our own python-click package because we needed features/bug fixes available as of version 7.0.0, but the most recent version available from Debian was in the 6.x range.
"Click" is needed for building/testing and installing sonic-utilities. Now that we are building sonic-utilities as a wheel, with Click specified as a dependency in the setup.py file, setuptools will install a more recent version of Click in the sonic-slave-buster container when building the package, and pip will install a more recent version of Click in the host OS of SONiC when installing the sonic-utilities package. Also, we don't need to worry about installing the Python 2 or 3 version of the package, as the proper one will be installed as necessary.
**- Why I did it**
To install the framework for adding unit tests to the sonic-py-common package and report coverage.
** How I did it **
- Incorporate pytest and pytest-cov into sonic-py-common package build
- Updgrade version of 'mock' installed to version 3.0.5, the last version which supports Python 2. This fixes a bug where the file object returned from `mock_open()` was not iterable (see https://bugs.python.org/issue32933)
- Add support for Python 3 setuptools and pytest in sonic-slave-buster environment
- Add tests for `device_info.get_machine_info()` and `device_info.get_platform()` functions
- Also add a .gitignore in the root of the sonic-py-common directory, move all related ignores from main .gitignore file, and add ignores for files and dirs generated by pytest-cov
Consolidate common SONiC Python-language functionality into one shared package (sonic-py-common) and eliminate duplicate code.
The package currently includes three modules:
- daemon_base
- device_info
- logger
