[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Why does this break FATE?

[Soft Works]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> James Almer
> Sent: Thursday, 9 September 2021 03:18
> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Why does this break FATE?
> 
> On 9/8/2021 10:14 PM, Soft Works wrote:
> > Test seek-lavf-asf failed. Look at tests/data/fate/seek-lavf-
> asf.err for details.
> > make: *** [/build/ffmpeg-git/tests/Makefile:256: fate-seek-lavf-
> asf] Error 139
> >
> > $ cat tests/data/fate/seek-lavf-asf.err
> > /build/ffmpeg-git/tests/fate-run.sh: line 78: 21786 Segmentation
> fault      $target_exec $target_path/"$@"
> >
> >
> > It's the same on both Windows/MSYS2 and Linux. Let's see how
> patchwork results will be...
> 
> Please, don't send patches just to have patchwork run FATE for you.
> It
> litters the mailing list. Do it locally.

As written above I _did_ run it locally on both Linux and Windows/MSYS.

> > ---
> >   libavcodec/version.h | 6 +++---
> >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/libavcodec/version.h b/libavcodec/version.h
> > index 83db2b242a..d162607f4b 100644
> > --- a/libavcodec/version.h
> > +++ b/libavcodec/version.h
> > @@ -27,9 +27,9 @@
> >
> >   #include "libavutil/version.h"
> >
> > -#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR  59
> > -#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MINOR   7
> > -#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MICRO 102
> > +#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR  60
> 
> Bumping major version of any library without the required
> considerations
> will more likely than not break many tests and scenarios.
> If you just want to bump version for a new addition or change, bump
> minor and/or micro.

The patch I'm working on requires a major version bump, that's why
I had it included in the commit where it belongs to.

Needless to say that it was the very last thing I suspected for
causing this.

So how can this be that a version change without anything else 
can cause a test to fail?`


softworkz

PS: Patchwork shows the same error