[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: fine-grained expected failure in the test-suite (Issue #4115)

[Panu Matilainen]

pmatilai created an issue (rpm-software-management/rpm#4115)

Adding tests before the fix is often useful, but AT_XFAIL is an awfully blunt tool for dealing with them as it invalidates the entire SETUP/CLEANUP group while present  - fine if there's only one CHECK in the group, but this is often not the case.

Also the XFAIL method doesn't capture the *current* behavior at all, which is often also useful to record so you can actually see the effect of the commit where it's fixed.

It'd be useful to somehow allow flagging the expected failure / wrongness on CHECK level, but what the actual method...

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