Decode manifests in tests and pin the mesh-sdk that no longer holds the judge

Issue 1585, S18/S19: the judge's tests live in mesh-delivery now, so an assertion that only tested judging goes
and every test that builds a manifest decodes it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL

internal/broker/agreement_catalogue_test.go

@@ -105,11 +105,7 @@ func theCataloguesEvents(t *testing.T) ([]AnEmitter, []AConsumer, []DeclaredSeat
 			emitters = append(emitters, *emitter)
 		}
 		if consumer != nil {
-			kept, setAside := setAsideRetiredSeats(*consumer)
-			for _, note := range setAside {
-				t.Log(note)
-			}
-			consumers = append(consumers, kept)
+			consumers = append(consumers, *consumer)
 		}
 		seats = append(seats, declared...)
 	}
@@ -119,53 +115,6 @@ func theCataloguesEvents(t *testing.T) ([]AnEmitter, []AConsumer, []DeclaredSeat
 	return emitters, consumers, seats
 }
 
-// setAsideRetiredSeats takes out of a consumer the events of a seat the mesh has retired, and says each one.
-// The check judges against the catalogue's trunk (ADR 0484 clause 4), and a group that retires a seat while
-// its catalogue pull request drops the consume (ADR 0524 section 5) meets the trunk still holding it: against
-// that catalogue the seat is gone and the subscription falls back to a module subject nobody owns. It is set
-// aside and logged, never silently dropped; an unknown seat that is not retired is still judged.
-func setAsideRetiredSeats(c AConsumer) (AConsumer, []string) {
-	kept := AConsumer{Module: c.Module}
-	var notes []string
-	for _, want := range c.Consumes {
-		seat, event, named := strings.Cut(want, ".")
-		if replacement, retired := catalogue.RetiredSeats[seat]; named && retired {
-			notes = append(notes, c.Module+" still consumes "+seat+"."+event+"; the seat is retired (its work is "+
-				replacement+"); the catalogue drops it in the same change (ADR 0524 §5), and the check judges against the catalogue's trunk (ADR 0484 clause 4)")
-			continue
-		}
-		kept.Consumes = append(kept.Consumes, want)
-	}
-	return kept, notes
-}
-
-func TestARetiredSeatsConsumeIsSetAsideAndAnUnknownOneIsNot(t *testing.T) {
-	var retired string
-	for name := range catalogue.RetiredSeats {
-		retired = name
-		break
-	}
-	if retired == "" {
-		t.Skip("no seat is retired")
-	}
-	kept, notes := setAsideRetiredSeats(AConsumer{Module: "m",
-		Consumes: []string{retired + ".built", "no-such-seat.built", "plain"}})
-	if len(notes) != 1 || !strings.Contains(notes[0], retired+".built") {
-		t.Fatalf("the retired seat's consume was not set aside and said: %v", notes)
-	}
-	if strings.Join(kept.Consumes, ",") != "no-such-seat.built,plain" {
-		t.Fatalf("what stays to be judged is wrong: %v", kept.Consumes)
-	}
-	if bad := Disagreements([]AnEmitter{{Module: "other", Emits: []string{"x"}}},
-		[]AConsumer{kept}, nil); len(bad) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("unexpected: %v", bad)
-	}
-	if bad := Disagreements([]AnEmitter{{Module: "no-such-seat", Emits: []string{"x"}}},
-		[]AConsumer{kept}, nil); len(bad) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("an unknown, non-retired consume no longer fails: %v", bad)
-	}
-}
-
 // **Do the derived subjects meet, not just the names?**
 //
 // The check above compares what a consumer asks for against what an emitter says it emits, by name. It

internal/broker/modstreams.go

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ func (s ModuleStream) Stream() Stream {
 
 // QueueOwner is the one process of a module that is the durable consumer of one of its own work-queue
 // streams (novox/hq ADR 0436 §1, §2, §6): named in that process's bus.queues, and checked at registration
-// to be the only one (catalogue.WorkQueueStreamProblems).
+// to be the only one (the indexer's judge).
 type QueueOwner struct {
 	// Process is the process resource's id — its bus account's name, with the node and module (novox/hq ADR
 	// 0436 §2).