A number of the tests marked -skip seem to be out of date and should be either 1. enabled 2. removed or 3. switched to -xfail
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investigate and change a couple of -skips to -xfails
wyattscarpenter commentedon Feb 24, 2026
Based on a brief sampling of these in #20889, I think most of them are just -skip when they should be -xfail. There are two benefits, both admittedly marginal, to making them xfail instead of skip: 1. It is semantically correct (at least according to my interpretation of https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/skipping.html) 2. If they get fixed they will be reported as an unexpected xpass, instead of silently continuing to skip.