python: Reduce strictness of pylint's duplicate-code check

Pylint prior to 2.8.3 (We pin at >= 2.8.0) includes function and method
signatures as part of its duplicate checking algorithm. This check does
not listen to pragmas, so the only way to disable it is to turn it off
completely or increase the minimum duplicate lines so that it doesn't
trigger for functions with long, multi-line signatures.

When we decide to upgrade to pylint 2.8.3 or greater, we will be able to
use 'ignore-signatures = true' to the config instead.

I'd prefer not to keep us on the very bleeding edge of pylint if I can
help it -- 2.8.3 came out only three days ago at time of writing.

See: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/pull/4474
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210809090114.64834-3-eesposit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>

diff --git a/python/setup.cfg b/python/setup.cfg
index 14bab9028836a91e32c4361fb54c527567af7297..83909c1c975baf38255a2617e875b4c70eca9450 100644 (file)
--- a/python/setup.cfg
+++ b/python/setup.cfg
@@ -105,6 +105,11 @@ good-names=i,
 # Ignore imports when computing similarities.
 ignore-imports=yes
 
+# Minimum lines number of a similarity.
+# TODO: Remove after we opt in to Pylint 2.8.3. See commit msg.
+min-similarity-lines=6
+
+
 [isort]
 force_grid_wrap=4
 force_sort_within_sections=True