fix issue #479: properly handle nose/unittest(2) SkipTest exceptions

during collection/loading of test modules.  Thanks to Marc Schlaich
for the complete PR.

AUTHORS

@@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ Anthon van der Neut
 Mark Abramowitz
 Piotr Banaszkiewicz
 Jurko Gospodnetić
+Marc Schlaich

CHANGELOG

@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ NEXT (2.6)
 - change skips into warnings for test classes with an __init__ and
   callables in test modules which look like a test but are not functions.
 
+- fix issue #479: properly handle nose/unittest(2) SkipTest exceptions
+  during collection/loading of test modules.  Thanks to Marc Schlaich
+  for the complete PR.
+
+
 2.5.2
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