diff --git a/1.5.tar.gz b/1.5.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index a75ada2..0000000
--- a/1.5.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:d7e04ed4eea04611f571de336c6613c7657e6c1175d77b42b3776c2067f175ec
-size 18514
diff --git a/1.6.tar.gz b/1.6.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7eead8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/1.6.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:7feebbda6e40463096e49bc7ffeccfe644e5db307083d1e323609b8c1682fdd2
+size 18446
diff --git a/python-purl.changes b/python-purl.changes
index 5ea706d..6afb484 100644
--- a/python-purl.changes
+++ b/python-purl.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Oct 17 10:46:23 UTC 2022 - pgajdos@suse.com
+
+- version update to 1.6
+  * Use `pytest` insteed of `nose`.
+  * Fix warning around regex string.
+- deleted patches
+  - use_pytest.patch (upstreamed)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon May  4 12:41:10 UTC 2020 - Paolo Stivanin <info@paolostivanin.com>
 
diff --git a/python-purl.spec b/python-purl.spec
index 430a878..bf93ad4 100644
--- a/python-purl.spec
+++ b/python-purl.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package python-purl
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2022 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -18,15 +18,13 @@
 
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-purl
-Version:        1.5
+Version:        1.6
 Release:        0
 Summary:        An immutable URL class for URL building and manipulation
 License:        MIT
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            https://github.com/codeinthehole/purl
 Source:         https://github.com/codeinthehole/purl/archive/%{version}.tar.gz
-# https://github.com/codeinthehole/purl/pull/42
-Patch0:         use_pytest.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module six}
@@ -41,7 +39,6 @@ An immutable URL class for URL building and manipulation.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n purl-%{version}
-%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 %python_build
@@ -51,7 +48,9 @@ An immutable URL class for URL building and manipulation.
 %python_expand %fdupes %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}
 
 %check
-%pytest tests/utils_tests.py tests/expansion_tests.py tests/template_tests.py  tests/url_tests.py
+pushd tests
+%pytest
+popd
 
 %files %{python_files}
 %doc README.rst
diff --git a/use_pytest.patch b/use_pytest.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 01bdd59..0000000
--- a/use_pytest.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-diff -ru a/makefile b/makefile
---- a/makefile	2019-03-10 21:51:02.000000000 +0100
-+++ b/makefile	2020-05-04 14:33:39.928123174 +0200
-@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
- 	python setup.py develop
- 
- test:
--	nosetests
-+    pytest tests/
- 
- package: clean
- 	# Test these packages in a fresh virtualenvs:
-Only in b: .pytest_cache
-diff -ru a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
---- a/requirements.txt	2019-03-10 21:51:02.000000000 +0100
-+++ b/requirements.txt	2020-05-04 14:33:54.216151730 +0200
-@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
- wheel==0.33.1
- 
- # Testing
--nose==1.3.7
-+pytest
- tox==3.7.0
-diff -ru a/runtests.sh b/runtests.sh
---- a/runtests.sh	2019-03-10 21:51:02.000000000 +0100
-+++ b/runtests.sh	2020-05-04 14:34:09.352181984 +0200
-@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
- #!/usr/bin/env bash
- 
--# The doctests only work in Python2.* due to unicode issues that I
--# don't know how to solve.
--nosetests --with-doctest --doctest-extension=rst -s $@
-+pytest tests/
-diff -ru a/tests/expansion_tests.py b/tests/expansion_tests.py
---- a/tests/expansion_tests.py	2019-03-10 21:51:02.000000000 +0100
-+++ b/tests/expansion_tests.py	2020-05-04 14:29:32.167627853 +0200
-@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
- # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
- import collections
- 
--from nose.tools import eq_
--
- from purl.template import expand
- 
- # Define variables as in the RFC (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6570)
-@@ -117,7 +115,7 @@
- 
- 
- def assert_expansion(template, fields, expected):
--    eq_(expand(template, fields), expected)
-+    assert expand(template, fields) == expected
- 
- 
- def test_expansion():
-diff -ru a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
---- a/tox.ini	2019-03-10 21:51:02.000000000 +0100
-+++ b/tox.ini	2020-05-04 14:30:03.975691441 +0200
-@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
- envlist = py26, py27, py34, pypy
- 
- [testenv]
--commands = nosetests []
-+commands = pytest
- deps = -r{toxinidir}/requirements.txt