selftest output noisy with debug messages (was Re: [patch] exclude .bzrignore from export, this time with tests)

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, John A Meinel wrote:
>Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>> This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>>> I've repatched it now, and added blackbox tests.
>> 
>> Incidentally, there's a lot of crap in the output of selftest, is all that
>> test output necessary?
>> 
>> 
>
>I assume you are talking specifically about the
>"test_set_user_setting_sets_and_saves broken:" and such comments.

Yeah.

>They are there to remind people that they should be fixed. Basically it
>means that a test isn't being run, and should be updated so that it can
>be run.
>
>At this point we might be able to switch to raise TestSkipped(), which
>would be less of an eyesore, but the eyesore is the reason it is there
>(to encourage people to fix it :)

Well, perhaps the authors of those comments should discuss it on list?  I
suspect that the people who can answer these questions haven't been asked :)