Resolved ptest regression in python-daemon on arm64 (Work Item: # 16234)

[Ratiranjan5]

Merge Checklist

All boxes should be checked before merging the PR (just tick any boxes which don't apply to this PR)

• The toolchain has been rebuilt successfully (or no changes were made to it)
• The toolchain/worker package manifests are up-to-date
• Any updated packages successfully build (or no packages were changed)
• Packages depending on static components modified in this PR (Golang, *-static subpackages, etc.) have had their Release tag incremented.
• Package tests (%check section) have been verified with RUN_CHECK=y for existing SPEC files, or added to new SPEC files
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• All source files have up-to-date hashes in the *.signatures.json files
• sudo make go-tidy-all and sudo make go-test-coverage pass
• Documentation has been updated to match any changes to the build system
• Ready to merge

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Summary

What does the PR accomplish, why was it needed?

• Fixes a python-daemon ptest regression on Azure Linux 3.0 arm64 due to Python 3.12 removal of assertEquals(), by updating the test to use assertEqual().
• Upstream Patch Reference: https://pagure.io/python-daemon/c/f5ed6cdd0a9fa3c0ce6d5b862d10da253945e791.patch

Change Log

• new file: SPECS/python-daemon/python-daemon-3.0.1-fix-ptest-deprecated-assertEquals-with-assertEqual.patch
• modified: SPECS/python-daemon/python-daemon.spec

Does this affect the toolchain?

NO

Associated issues

• https://dev.azure.com/mariner-org/mariner/_workitems/edit/16234

Links to CVEs

Test Methodology

• Local build was successful.

• Logs:
  python-daemon-3.0.1-2.azl3.src.rpm.log

• Patch applies cleanly.

[bhagyapathak]

Buddy Build - https://dev.azure.com/mariner-org/mariner/_build/results?buildId=1055885&view=results

[Ratiranjan5]

Buddy Build - https://dev.azure.com/mariner-org/mariner/_build/results?buildId=1055885&view=results

The buddy build has passed on the arm64 architecture as well.