From 613ab60be9e338bf756bc7642b53ef950af298fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Cl=C3=A9ment=20Robert?= <cr52@protonmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 09:07:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] move pytest config to pytest.toml

---
 pytools/pytest.ini           | 2 --
 test/python_requirements.txt | 5 ++---
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 pytools/pytest.ini

diff --git a/pytools/pytest.ini b/pytools/pytest.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index d1f826516..000000000
--- a/pytools/pytest.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[pytest]
-python_files="test_*.py"
diff --git a/test/python_requirements.txt b/test/python_requirements.txt
index 9cf2383a2..3c053161d 100644
--- a/test/python_requirements.txt
+++ b/test/python_requirements.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,5 @@ scipy>=1.2.3
 # note that no version of inifix supports Python older than 3.6
 inifix>=0.11.2
 
-# To run the test suite, we can use pytest, mostly any version
-# 6.0 is the one available on system available on debian-11
-pytest >= 6.0
+# To run the test suite, we can use pytest
+pytest>=9.0

From 967b35a45c6b405007228ce73ee4ae3a35a3cecb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Cl=C3=A9ment=20Robert?= <cr52@protonmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 09:07:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] separate inifiles validation from formatting

---
 .pre-commit-config.yaml |  4 +++-
 pytest.ini              |  6 ------
 pytest.toml             | 10 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 pytest.ini
 create mode 100644 pytest.toml

diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 8249b7b03..54c86ed80 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -47,8 +47,10 @@ repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/neutrinoceros/inifix
     rev: v6.1.2
     hooks:
+      - id: inifix-validate
+        args: [--sections=require]
       - id: inifix-format
-        files: ^(test/).*\.(ini)$ # want to skip pytest.ini
+        args: [--skip-validation]
 
   - repo: https://github.com/Lucas-C/pre-commit-hooks
     rev: v1.5.5
diff --git a/pytest.ini b/pytest.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index b3482664f..000000000
--- a/pytest.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-[pytest]
-markers=
-  default: Test to run by default.
-python_files="test_*.py"
-junit_logging="system-out"
-junit_log_passing_tests=false
diff --git a/pytest.toml b/pytest.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d21bc46a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pytest.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+[pytest]
+minversion = "9.0"
+markers = [
+  "default: Test to run by default.",
+]
+python_files = [
+  "test_*.py",
+]
+junit_logging = "system-out"
+junit_log_passing_tests = false