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diff --git a/lib/spack/external/nose/plugins/failuredetail.py b/lib/spack/external/nose/plugins/failuredetail.py
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-"""
-This plugin provides assert introspection. When the plugin is enabled
-and a test failure occurs, the traceback is displayed with extra context
-around the line in which the exception was raised. Simple variable 
-substitution is also performed in the context output to provide more
-debugging information.
-"""
-    
-from nose.plugins import Plugin
-from nose.pyversion import exc_to_unicode, force_unicode
-from nose.inspector import inspect_traceback
-
-class FailureDetail(Plugin):
-    """
-    Plugin that provides extra information in tracebacks of test failures.
-    """
-    score = 1600 # before capture
-    
-    def options(self, parser, env):
-        """Register commmandline options.
-        """
-        parser.add_option(
-            "-d", "--detailed-errors", "--failure-detail",
-            action="store_true",
-            default=env.get('NOSE_DETAILED_ERRORS'),
-            dest="detailedErrors", help="Add detail to error"
-            " output by attempting to evaluate failed"
-            " asserts [NOSE_DETAILED_ERRORS]")
-
-    def configure(self, options, conf):
-        """Configure plugin.
-        """
-        if not self.can_configure:
-            return
-        self.enabled = options.detailedErrors
-        self.conf = conf
-
-    def formatFailure(self, test, err):
-        """Add detail from traceback inspection to error message of a failure.
-        """
-        ec, ev, tb = err
-        tbinfo, str_ev = None, exc_to_unicode(ev)
-
-        if tb:
-            tbinfo = force_unicode(inspect_traceback(tb))
-            str_ev = '\n'.join([str_ev, tbinfo])
-        test.tbinfo = tbinfo
-        return (ec, str_ev, tb)
-