--- a/devtools/test/unittest_devctl.py	Mon Jan 04 18:40:30 2016 +0100
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-# copyright 2003-2015 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
-# contact http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
-#
-# This file is part of CubicWeb.
-#
-# CubicWeb is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
-# terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
-# Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
-# any later version.
-#
-# CubicWeb is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
-# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
-# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
-# details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
-# with CubicWeb.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-"""unit tests for cubicweb-ctl commands from devtools"""
-
-import os.path as osp
-import sys
-import tempfile
-import shutil
-from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT
-from unittest import TestCase
-
-
-class CubicWebCtlTC(TestCase):
-    """test case for devtools commands"""
-
-    def test_newcube(self):
-        cwctl = osp.abspath(osp.join(osp.dirname(__file__), '../../bin/cubicweb-ctl'))
-
-        tmpdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="temp-cwctl-newcube")
-        try:
-            cmd = [sys.executable, cwctl, 'newcube',
-                   '--directory', tmpdir, 'foo']
-            proc = Popen(cmd, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT)
-            stdout, _ = proc.communicate(b'short_desc\n')
-        finally:
-            shutil.rmtree(tmpdir, ignore_errors=True)
-        self.assertEqual(proc.returncode, 0, msg=stdout)
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    from unittest import main
-    main()