pytest ( versions 7.2+ ) with pytest-cov 4.0.0 fails to write xml report durring GH actions

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Describe the bug
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To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. ensure working version locally
2. run the make test-pytest target
3. ensure coverage output file is created
4. compare to GH actions on any os and any python 3.7-3.10 (3.11 is an expected fail)
5. See error

Expected behavior
CI should produce the same or similar behavior to running the same steps locally.

Logs (optional)
CI builds #138-#150

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• Python Version [3.7-3.11]
• Multicast Python Library Version: 1.4.2

Additional context (optional)
This seems to be related to only to coverage within pytest at the moment.

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Work around for now is to use the M.A.T.s test via make test and use coverage out-of-band to check test coverage.

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🤔 Napkin code for a regression test of this:

#! /bin/bash
# ---> will need header and boilerplate code here <---
make test-pytest ; wait ;
test -r ./test-reports/junit.xml || EXIT_CODE=1 ;
exit $EXIT_CODE ;

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✅ Issue seems fixed as of pytest-cov v5.0+