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It seems notifying about property changes is not needed in classes where specialized notification is available (special events and listeners), e.g. in DebuggerManager and DebuggerEngine.
I agree. This looks really very strange. But it's impossible to fix in a compatible way. There may be already many clients depending on this... Scheduling for future. If the API will be changed, this can be taken into account...