Re: pkg/49502: py-mercurial fails some unit tests

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/49502; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/49502: py-mercurial fails some unit tests
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:26:09 +0000

 On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 11:20:00PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
  >  | This was closed as WONTFIX, pointing to
  >  | http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.current/51309
  >  | 
  >  | Perhaps we should remove that cvsadmin check in the NetBSD copy of
  >  | cvs.
  >  
  >  Why? cvs init to a non-existing root works. Why is cvs init to an existing
  >  root useful?
 
 It's not, but maybe it should print a sensible error message instead
 of demanding meaningless permissions...
 
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 David A. Holland
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