[issue3269] hg debuginstall should not check for username in users mercurial configuration

[Matthew Giannini]

New submission from Matthew Giannini <mgiannini at tridium.com>:

In our company, we have a IT guy who is primarily responsible for upgrading 
our Mercurial server to new versions. Part of the instructions we have 
provided is to run "hg debuginstall" after upgrading to a new version of 
Mercurial.  

Last night, he upgraded to Mercurial 2.1 and ran hg debuginstall. The script 
failed with the error below.  Because he is unfamiliar with Mercurial, he 
was not aware that this is not actually an installation an error.  But he 
was concerned and rolled back the entire installation to a backup because he 
thought he had messed up the installation.

I don't think this check makes sense in the debuginstall script because 
having a username set does not a valid installation make.  Further, there is 
a good chance (especially in unix systems) that the installation user is not 
actually a valid mercurial user and it would not make sense to set up an 
.hgrc file for that user in the first place.

Checking encoding (ascii)...
Checking installed modules (/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-
packages/mercurial)...
Checking templates (/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-
packages/mercurial/templates)...
Checking commit editor...
Checking username...
no username supplied (see "hg help config")
(specify a username in your configuration file)
1 problems detected, please check your install!

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messages: 19086
nosy: mgiannini
priority: wish
status: unread
title: hg debuginstall should not check for username in users mercurial configuration

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