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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

AsynchronousDeferredRunTest has support for trapping unhandled errors in
Deferreds and then reporting them as extra tracebacks.

It would be very useful if it also reported the creator and invoker
tracebacks for those deferreds when they are available.  When they are
not available it would be useful to tell the user that they can get
creator and invoker tracebacks by enabling deferred debugging.

** Affects: testtools
     Importance: Low
         Status: Triaged

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Better support for debugging unhandled errors in Deferreds
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/662648
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Status in testtools: Triaged

Bug description:
AsynchronousDeferredRunTest has support for trapping unhandled errors in Deferreds and then reporting them as extra tracebacks.

It would be very useful if it also reported the creator and invoker tracebacks for those deferreds when they are available.  When they are not available it would be useful to tell the user that they can get creator and invoker tracebacks by enabling deferred debugging.