Revert "Do not append namespace packages to sys.path (#6405)" (#6548)

This reverts commit 603be8408a5d2d98283f41cfd9a94998fd7cfd3c.

4 files changed, 0 insertions, 38 deletions

diff --git a/tests/lint/test_namespace_packages.py b/tests/lint/test_namespace_packages.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ac96f09e..000000000
--- a/tests/lint/test_namespace_packages.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-# Licensed under the GPL: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
-# For details: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/blob/main/LICENSE
-# Copyright (c) https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/blob/main/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
-
-"""Tests related to linting of namespace packages."""
-
-from io import StringIO
-
-from pylint.reporters.text import TextReporter
-from pylint.testutils._run import _Run as Run
-
-
-def test_namespace_package_sys_path() -> None:
-    """Test that we do not append namespace packages to sys.path.
-
-    The test package is based on https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/2648.
-    """
-    pylint_output = StringIO()
-    reporter = TextReporter(pylint_output)
-    runner = Run(
-        ["tests/regrtest_data/namespace_import_self/"],
-        reporter=reporter,
-        exit=False,
-    )
-    assert not runner.linter.stats.by_msg
diff --git a/tests/lint/unittest_expand_modules.py b/tests/lint/unittest_expand_modules.py
index 1ce5b6c4e..15f72d0c5 100644
--- a/tests/lint/unittest_expand_modules.py
+++ b/tests/lint/unittest_expand_modules.py
@@ -77,13 +77,6 @@ test_caching = {
     "path": str(TEST_DIRECTORY / "lint/test_caching.py"),
 }
 
-test_namespace_packages = {
-    "basename": "lint",
-    "basepath": INIT_PATH,
-    "isarg": False,
-    "name": "lint.test_namespace_packages",
-    "path": str(TEST_DIRECTORY / "lint/test_namespace_packages.py"),
-}
 
 init_of_package = {
     "basename": "lint",
@@ -115,7 +108,6 @@ class TestExpandModules(CheckerTestCase):
                 [
                     init_of_package,
                     test_caching,
-                    test_namespace_packages,
                     test_pylinter,
                     test_utils,
                     this_file_from_init,
diff --git a/tests/regrtest_data/namespace_import_self/else/__init__.py b/tests/regrtest_data/namespace_import_self/else/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb..000000000
--- a/tests/regrtest_data/namespace_import_self/else/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
diff --git a/tests/regrtest_data/namespace_import_self/pylint/__init__.py b/tests/regrtest_data/namespace_import_self/pylint/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index cce5e5302..000000000
--- a/tests/regrtest_data/namespace_import_self/pylint/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-"""Module that imports from its own namespace."""
-
-from pylint import run_pylint
-
-run_pylint()