Bug#1135448: pygame: FTBFS: FAIL: test_fill_rle (pygame.tests.surface_test.SurfaceTypeTest.test_fill_rle)

[Simon McVittie]

On Wed, 20 May 2026 at 21:10:18 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>Do you think we should cherry-pick this patch or its equivalent into 
>pygame, then?  I don't know this package especially well, but it looks 
>like a pretty simple patch.

Yes, I think so.

I would personally suggest completely deleting the last
`self.assertTrue(blit_surf.get_flags() & pygame.RLEACCEL)` assertion 
from test_fill_rle(), rather than making it conditional as the pygame-ce 
team did. My understanding is that it was true in the past as a result 
of SDL implementation choices, but it was never an API guarantee that 
performing edits to a RLE surface would leave it still in the RLE state.

     smcv