[FFmpeg-devel] Backporting makefile targets fate-list-failing and fate-clear-reports

[Martin Storsjö]

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025, Alexander Strasser via ffmpeg-devel wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I'm thinking about backporting commit 1e76bd2f394a01c1 [1] to all releases
> listed on our download page.
>
> It is a new feature for the build system, but not used to build ffmpeg
> or otherwise related to the generated binaries.
>
> It's of utility when doing backports because it makes it easy to run
> all fate tests with -k and to get a list of the failed tests after.
>
> Are there any objections to backporting this convenience fate feature?

It's a little bit unusual to backport such a thing, but I think it would 
be ok. It can help maintainance of those branches, and it shouldn't affect 
anything outside of the new make targets (no existing behaviours should be 
affected), so if you would like to backport it, I'd say it seems ok.

// Martin