chore(deps-dev): update pytest-cov requirement from >=5.0 to >=7.1.0

[dependabot]

Updates the requirements on pytest-cov to permit the latest version.

Changelog

Sourced from pytest-cov's changelog.

7.1.0 (2026-03-21)

• Fixed total coverage computation to always be consistent, regardless of reporting settings. Previously some reports could produce different total counts, and consequently can make --cov-fail-under behave different depending on reporting options. See [#641](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/641) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/641>_.

• Improve handling of ResourceWarning from sqlite3.

  The plugin adds warning filter for sqlite3 ResourceWarning unclosed database (since 6.2.0). It checks if there is already existing plugin for this message by comparing filter regular expression. When filter is specified on command line the message is escaped and does not match an expected message. A check for an escaped regular expression is added to handle this case.

  With this fix one can suppress ResourceWarning from sqlite3 from command line::

  pytest -W "ignore:unclosed database in <sqlite3.Connection object at:ResourceWarning" ...

• Various improvements to documentation. Contributed by Art Pelling in [#718](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/718) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/pull/718>_ and "vivodi" in [#738](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/738) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/pull/738>. Also closed [#736](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/736) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/736>.

• Fixed some assertions in tests. Contributed by in Markéta Machová in [#722](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/722) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/pull/722>_.

• Removed unnecessary coverage configuration copying (meant as a backup because reporting commands had configuration side-effects before coverage 5.0).

7.0.0 (2025-09-09)

• Dropped support for subprocesses measurement.

  It was a feature added long time ago when coverage lacked a nice way to measure subprocesses created in tests. It relied on a .pth file, there was no way to opt-out and it created bad interations with coverage's new patch system <https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config.html#run-patch>_ added in 7.10 <https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/7.10.6/changes.html#version-7-10-0-2025-07-24>_.

  To migrate to this release you might need to enable the suprocess patch, example for .coveragerc:

  .. code-block:: ini

  [run] patch = subprocess

  This release also requires at least coverage 7.10.6.

• Switched packaging to have metadata completely in pyproject.toml and use hatchling <https://pypi.org/project/hatchling/>_ for building. Contributed by Ofek Lev in [#551](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/551) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/pull/551>_ with some extras in [#716](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/716) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/pull/716>_.

• Removed some not really necessary testing deps like six.

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Commits

• 66c8a52 Bump version: 7.0.0 → 7.1.0
• f707662 Make the examples use pypy 3.11.
• 6049a78 Make context test use the old ctracer (seems the new sysmon tracer behaves di...
• 8ebf20b Update changelog.
• 861d30e Remove the backup context manager - shouldn't be needed since coverage 5.0, ...
• fd4c956 Pass the precision on the nulled total (seems that there's some caching goion...
• 78c9c4e Only run the 3.9 on older deps.
• 4849a92 Punctuation.
• 197c35e Update changelog and hopefully I don't forget to publish release again :))
• 14dc1c9 Update examples to use 3.11 and make the adhoc layout example look a bit more...
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[imran-siddique]

Routine dependency bump, green apart from the maintainer hold gate. Merged as part of a reviewed batch of nineteen on 2026-08-31; the CodeQL sibling-path bumps and three genuinely failing bumps were handled separately.

[imran-siddique]

@dependabot rebase

[imran-siddique]

Rebased cleanly onto current main and the full check suite is green. Approving to release the maintainer hold.