* upon deserialization. An instance of this class is fit for use by the writeReplace of
   * LocalManualCache.
   *
   * <p>Unfortunately, readResolve() doesn't get called when a circular dependency is present, so
   * the proxy must be able to behave as the cache itself.
   */
  private static class ManualSerializationProxy<K, V> extends ForwardingCache<K, V>

Unfortunately, there is a much rarer second possible failure mode: the replication controller gets renamed to the old name, but there is a duplicated set of pods in the cluster. kubectl will not report an error since it thinks its job is done.