I can't say much about the PR. At least a change log entry would be nice.

Whoops, in my searches I didn't catch that pytest-rerunfailures uses these private fields.

Next time, I'll clone all of the repos in pytest-dev organization and do a grep on that, in addition to github search.

Anyway, the PR looks good to me from a pytest perspective. In the future, it would be good to provide public & documented APIs for what pytest-rerunfailures needs, so it doesn't break silently again.

I can confirm that this patch addresses the problem.

@sallner A patch release with this fix would be greatly appreciated.

@sallner should be back next week. Meanwhile I would be able to merge and release, but I'd like to have someone who actually reviews this PR. Is there anyone out there to do so?

Thank you, I just released https://pypi.org/project/pytest-rerunfailures/9.0/ including this fix.