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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 09 December 2011 12:34:09 Gary Poster wrote:
> My tentative conclusions:
> - launchpad-buildd is supposed to be installed everywhere, but it is not.
> - relatedly, it is not part of the launchpad-dependencies metapackage
> (confirmed
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-committers/meta-lp-deps/trunk/view/he
> ad:/debian/control
> <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Elaunchpad-committers/meta-lp-deps/trunk/vie
> w/head:/debian/control> ) but it should be.
> - if the tests don't find launchpad-buildd, they cope, either by hiding
> the tests or by going down some code path.

The tests rely on the python-lpbuildd package, launchpad-buildd is what gets 
installed on the actual slaves IIRC.

> Julian could not confirm these conclusions.  Could Martin, William, or
> someone else confirm?  If we know what needs to be done, we can find
> someone to do it.

launchpad-buildd does not need to be installed, python-lpbuildd does.  Does 
this fit with your observations at all?