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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 10 January 2011 16:28:47 Michael Hudson wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:40:22 +0000, Julian Edwards 
<julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I still think lp.shipit is on crack though, it's just importing loads
> > of stuff and doing nothing.  What is it used for?
> 
> IIRC, it's there to provide a stable location for shipit to import
> various things from, to avoid stress when moving things around the
> launchpad tree and not noticing that you've broken shipit.

That sounds like the same rationale someone used to create the glob imports in 
lib/canonical/interfaces et al :)

We should at the very least split it into two files, one with the testing 
imports only.