The DB-backed lane and the two ffmpeg tests skipped SILENTLY when the DB was
unreachable or ffmpeg was absent, so `siftlode check` could print green while
~60 tests never ran. Make the compose lane authoritative:
- SIFTLODE_TEST_REQUIRE_DB=1 in docker-compose.test.yml; conftest.pytest_configure
turns a would-be skip (no Postgres, or no ffmpeg) into a hard UsageError.
- install ffmpeg in Dockerfile.test so the thumbnail/poster tests actually run.
- `-rs` in pytest.ini so skip reasons are always visible.
Add the shared TestClient fixtures the risk-core suites build on: `make_user`
(create + commit a login-ready User), `client` (real auth/session stack, no
current_user override — for login/wallet/epoch), and `as_user` (a client
pre-authenticated as a given user, for tests that aren't exercising login).
The suite was pure-logic only (R2 S2b deferred the DB lane). Add an opt-in `db`
fixture (tests/conftest.py) that hands a test a real session against an ephemeral
Postgres; schema is built with `alembic upgrade head` (the real prod schema needs
the unaccent extension + unaccent_simple TS config that create_all can't provide,
and this also proves the migration chain applies). Each test starts from a TRUNCATEd
clean DB so tests that COMMIT — the whole point, for R6 S2's transaction work —
don't leak.
backend/docker-compose.test.yml wires an ephemeral tmpfs pg + the test image. When
no Postgres is reachable (a plain `docker run`), the DB tests SKIP and the pure-logic
lane is unchanged: 172 passed, 2 skipped. With the DB: 174 passed.
test_db_lane.py smoke-proves commit round-trip + TRUNCATE isolation. The gate wiring
(siftlode.sh) lands in the ops repo.
peter