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+Brick is a new library that currently is maintained in Cinder for
+the Havana release.   It will eventually be moved external to Cinder,
+possibly oslo, or pypi.  Any defects found in Brick, should be submitted
+against Cinder and fixed there, then pulled into other projects that
+are using brick.
+
+* Brick is used outside of Cinder and therefore
+  cannot have any dependencies on Cinder and/or
+  it's database.