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+  o Minor bugfixes (tests):
+    - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially configured
+      non-default, non-passing set of options.  Previously, the tests had
+      been written to assume that options would _not_ be set to their
+      defaults, which led to needless complexity and verbosity.
+      Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.