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--- a/services/commtest/Cargo.lock
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+ "syn",
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+ "async-stream",
+ "bytesize",
+ "futures",
+ "prost",
+ "tokio",
+ "tonic",
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+ "futures-core",
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+ "tokio-util",
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+ "futures-util",
+ "h2",
+ "http",
+ "http-body",
+ "hyper",
+ "hyper-timeout",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "pin-project",
+ "prost",
+ "prost-derive",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-stream",
+ "tokio-util",
+ "tower",
+ "tower-layer",
+ "tower-service",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-futures",
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+ "tokio-stream",
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diff --git a/services/commtest/Cargo.toml b/services/commtest/Cargo.toml
--- a/services/commtest/Cargo.toml
+++ b/services/commtest/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
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