As the issue has been resolved am closing this ticket.
- bug#78158: mercurial broken since af689c976591dd9c7... Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
- bug#78158: mercurial broken since af689c976591... Z572
- bug#78158: mercurial broken since af689c97... Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
- bug#78158: mercurial broken since af68... Greg Hogan
