[Python-apps-team] Bug#494889: fetching from static-http://... broken

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar]

Package: mercurial
Version: 1.0.1-3
Severity: important

Using etch (version 0.9.1-1+etch1):

[jeroen at mordor]/tmp$ hg clone static-http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 16 changesets with 30 changes to 10 files
10 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
[jeroen at mordor]/tmp$ 

Using lenny (version 1.0.1-3)
[jeroen at eee]/tmp$ hg clone static-http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status
abort: 'http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status' does not appear to be an hg repository!
[jeroen at eee]/tmp$ 

This is not documented in the Debian changelog (the upstream changelog
is missing), and even if this feature is intentionally discontinued, the
hg command should report so and not fail with the "no repo found" error
message.

Thanks,
--Jeroen

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