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Make `ChannelMonitor` round-trip tests more robust

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Matt Corallo

83/100 · Strong
Make `ChannelMonitor` round-trip tests more robust

During testsing, we check that a `ChannelMonitor` will round-trip
through serialization exactly. However, we recently added a fix to
change a value in `PackageTemplate` on reload to fix some issues in
the field in 0.1. This can cause the round-trip tests to fail as a
field is modified during read.

We fix it here by simply exempting the field from the equality test
in the condition where it would be updated on read.

We also make the `ChannelMonitor` `PartialEq` trait implementation
non-public as weird workarounds like this make clear that such a
comparison is a britle API at best.
✓ Specific, descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context✓ Mentions testing or verification
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit only changes test code and the visibility of an equality-checking feature. It makes a test comparison ignore a field that gets rewritten when data is loaded back from disk, and it hides the equality trait from public use because the comparison is fragile. There is no runtime security fix here.

Recommended action

No action required for security. Reviewers may want to confirm the referenced 0.1 field-repair fix is itself sound, but this commit is purely test/ API-hardening.

Security signals we found

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No security fix in runtime code

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Equality comparison hidden from public API

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Test-only workaround for serialization round-trip behavior

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References a prior field-repair fix in PackageTemplate deserialization

Risk score

Why this scored 16/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 1/15
Affected reach 1/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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