Remove flake8 linter for Python from CI

Python codestyle is now handled by black and other issues are checked by
pylint. Flake8 checking has been made redundant and is thus removed as
obsolete.

diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index a8c54d47e176e28095073d2cbff349f5a1b978c1..2ebf280988e3a961b48882c25c1be6f1adbba084 100644 (file)
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -480,19 +480,6 @@ danger:
     variables:
       - $DANGER_GITLAB_API_TOKEN
 
-flake8:
-  <<: *default_triggering_rules
-  <<: *base_image
-  stage: postcheck
-  needs:
-    - job: autoreconf
-      artifacts: true
-  script:
-    - *configure
-    - flake8 --max-line-length=80 $(git ls-files '*.py' | grep -vE '(ans\.py|dangerfile\.py|^bin/tests/system/)')
-      # Ignore Flake8 E402 error (module level import not at top of file) in system test to enable use of pytest.importorskip
-    - flake8 --max-line-length=80 --extend-ignore=E402 $(git ls-files 'bin/tests/system/*.py' | grep -vE 'ans\.py')
-
 pylint:
   <<: *default_triggering_rules
   <<: *base_image