Testing package imports locally

[John Arbash Meinel]

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I've been wanting to get into handling some of the bugs with the package
importer, such as:
  https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/udd/+bug/508251

However, I really don't know a way to run the package importing
manually. I can write unit tests, but without running a real import, I
can't be sure that my assumptions are valid.

So how does one go about setting up a local package importer. Or can we
set something up somewhere like tungsten/chinstrap/devpad/etc so all of
us have a sandbox that we can go play in.

I'm hoping it doesn't involve setting up all of launchpad locally, but I
suppose if necessary I can do that.

John
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