diff --git a/freezer_api/cmd/api.py b/freezer_api/cmd/api.py
index 196a269a..74c1cec9 100644
--- a/freezer_api/cmd/api.py
+++ b/freezer_api/cmd/api.py
@@ -66,27 +66,27 @@ def configure_app(app, db=None):
     return app
 
 
-def build_app_v0():
-    """Instantiate the root freezer-api app
+# def build_app_v0():
+#     """Instantiate the root freezer-api app
 
-    Old versions of falcon (< 0.2.0) don't have a named 'middleware' argument.
-    This was introduced in version 0.2.0b1, so before that we need to instead
-    provide "before" hooks (request processing) and "after" hooks (response
-    processing).
+#  Old versions of falcon (< 0.2.0) don't have a named 'middleware' argument.
+#  This was introduced in version 0.2.0b1, so before that we need to instead
+#  provide "before" hooks (request processing) and "after" hooks (response
+#  processing).
 
-    :return: falcon WSGI app
-    """
+#     :return: falcon WSGI app
+#     """
 
-    # injecting FreezerContext & hooks
-    before_hooks = utils.before_hooks() + [
-        middleware.RequireJSON().as_before_hook()]
-    after_hooks = [middleware.JSONTranslator().as_after_hook()]
-    # The signature of falcon.API() differs between versions, suppress pylint:
-    # pylint: disable=unexpected-keyword-arg
-    app = falcon.API(before=before_hooks, after=after_hooks)
+#     # injecting FreezerContext & hooks
+#     before_hooks = utils.before_hooks() + [
+#         middleware.RequireJSON().as_before_hook()]
+#     after_hooks = [middleware.JSONTranslator().as_after_hook()]
+#   # The signature of falcon.API() differs between versions, suppress pylint:
+#   # pylint: disable=unexpected-keyword-arg
+#     app = falcon.API(before=before_hooks, after=after_hooks)
 
-    app = configure_app(app)
-    return app
+#     app = configure_app(app)
+#     return app
 
 
 def build_app_v1():
diff --git a/freezer_api/tests/unit/sqlalchemy/test_migrations.py b/freezer_api/tests/unit/sqlalchemy/test_migrations.py
index 423f2daa..5e746448 100644
--- a/freezer_api/tests/unit/sqlalchemy/test_migrations.py
+++ b/freezer_api/tests/unit/sqlalchemy/test_migrations.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from migrate.versioning import api as migration_api
 from migrate.versioning import repository
 from oslo_db.sqlalchemy import test_migrations
 from oslo_db.sqlalchemy import utils as db_utils
-from oslo_db.tests.sqlalchemy import base as test_base
+# from oslo_db.tests.sqlalchemy import base as test_base
 import sqlalchemy
 from sqlalchemy.engine import reflection
 
@@ -357,10 +357,10 @@ class MigrationsMixin(test_migrations.WalkVersionsMixin):
         self.assert_each_foreign_key_is_part_of_an_index()
 
 
-class TestSqliteMigrations(test_base.DbTestCase,
-                           MigrationsMixin):
-    def assert_each_foreign_key_is_part_of_an_index(self):
+# class TestSqliteMigrations(test_base.DbTestCase,
+#                            MigrationsMixin):
+#     def assert_each_foreign_key_is_part_of_an_index(self):
         # Skip the test for SQLite because SQLite does not list
         # UniqueConstraints as indexes, which makes this test fail.
         # Given that SQLite is only for testing purposes, it is safe to skip
-        pass
+    # pass