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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 29 November 2011 09:39:13 Martin Pool wrote:
> Eventually it would be perhaps good to have a fake implementation that
> talks the right protocol (to test lp without buildd), a driver that
> talks that protocol to the buildd to test it alone, and then a harness
> that tests an entire running system.  I think the last is the most
> urgent: just answering "did that deployment to staging work or not" is
> super complicated and manual and is the place we had a lot of stalls
> in deployment.  Without that, any introduction of fakes is going to be
> risky.

There are already fake buildd objects in the manager tests. This may be good 
or bad :)