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Deprecate pastebin plugin #14434

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@bluetech

I propose to deprecate the builtin pastebin plugin. This plugin provides the following functionality:

--pastebin=mode       Send failed|all info to bpaste.net pastebin service

(actually the URL changed to bpa.st a while back).

As an alternative, let's create a pytest-pastebin plugin under pytest-dev and point users to that in the deprecation message.

Reasons:

  • Very niche functionality
  • Probably very low usage (I can't prove it)
  • Only thing in pytest which does network access (I think)
  • Favors a particular external service
  • The bpa.st service doesn't seem to have any privacy policy

If we accept this proposal, I can do the work (create the new new external plugin and deprecate in core).

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