Comment 18 for bug 1860456

> ack, no hurry, thanks.

Actually this blocks progress in fixing a class of import failures in git-ubuntu, so I would appreciate getting this landed sooner rather than later. I'd prefer not to have to patch the git-ubuntu snap's bundled ubuntu-dev-tools as that opens up a whole bunch of extra complications.

Can we just review and land Colin's patch please, as it's tight in scope and thus simple to review?