pkgdev tatt: forces USE=test
pkgdev tatt will try to set USE=test for a package which confuses things. There shouldn't be a need for it.
With emerge --with-test-deps foo, test dependencies will be pulled in (so no need for USE=test for that). For FEATURES=test emerge foo, USE=test is automatically enabled if tests are not restricted).
Forcing USE=test breaks where tests are restricted but building tests fails for some other reason which has gone unnoticed because of that restriction, and it is unlikely that any developers will be interested in this. To silence reports about this, developers would have to p.use.mask the test USE flag for a package as well, but this also confuses emerge --with-test-deps!
One example recently is https://bugs.gentoo.org/967274.
TL;DR: We shouldn't ever set USE=test in pkgdev tatt.
In theory USE=test is "as valid as any other" for --use-combos=3 --use-random (and restricting tests doesn't mean nobody has a legitimate interest in ALLOW_TEST="all", or should have src_configure fail when ALLOW_TEST is in play).
Admittedly here pkgdev tatt is enabling USE=test outside of the combos/random factor, sooo...