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tests: add coverage to for `HGCB_BUNDLE_BASENAME` with special characters

Per request on IRC, to show the behavior of dropping the quoting of
`HGCB_BUNDLE_BASENAME` in the next commit.  This current failure is basically
the same error and output that currently happens on Windows with any path (even
without the embedded quote).  The only difference is Windows doesn't print the
`cp: cannot stat ...` line.

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.