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+This is dead code, it is here for convinience for those testing current devel so as to acertain if a bug was introduced in the v2 rewrite or was preexisitng in the 1.x codebase.
+
+DO NOT:
+ * use this code as reference
+ * make PRs against this code
+ * expect this code to be shipped with the 2.0 version of ansible