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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:18 PM, James Westby
<jw+debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:43:23 +0100, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Once I figured out how to get past that, and buildout ran
>> successfully, I tried running the tests. They failed[3].
>
> I believe there are some tests that are only supposed to be run within
> launchpad's test harness. Perhaps I'm misremembering and it's
> launchpadlib that is in that state, but I remember not being able to get
> a clean test run on one of them without doing it in that way.
>

There's a script called 'bin/standalone_test' that fails differently,
but with the same root cause: no lazr.uri.

> Such a dependency certainly makes it harder to contribute, and makes it
> less likely that lazr.restfulclient will be reused by another project.
>

+1

jml